Vincent DeLuise KV 80 Exquisite Sweetness. Mozartean sweetness, of course Wolfgang Mozart String Quartet No.1 in G, KV 80 (K6 73f) Sublime is but one adjective to describe Mozarts chamber music, and here is one of my favorites, Mozarts first string quartet. I have often mentioned Mozarts early string quartets. They are so sadly underplayed, and at once, so delicious and exquisite. This first string quartet, this G major KV 80, is my favorite of the group. Mozart wrote this sweetly beautiful quartet on March 15 1770 at 7 oclock in the evening as Mozart wrote on the autograph. He had just turned 14, and composed it while visiting Lodi, Italia, on his first trip to Italy with Papa Leopold. (Italy was the wondrous and beautiful venue of so many early Mozartean gems, as we have discussed). I first heard this work, the G major string quartet, in 1975. I return to it often. There is a certain je ne sais quois about this composition, the work of the prodigy genius, who here, in his first real attempt at the string quartet genre, creates a jewel of such formal perfection, and sublime sweetness and beauty. that it still, 40 years later, stops me in my tracks and brings me to tears, The string quartet genre, thanks largely to Joseph Haydn, had evolved to four-movement works from earlier three-movement forms, which in turn stemmed from the trio sonatas of the early 1700s. The exquisite first movement Adagio is actually based on the early trio sonata format as you will recognize This first movement still overwhelms me with its haunting beauty - it brings chills down my spine, a music-brain phenomenon which I will discuss later this week in detail in NYC. All four movements of this quartet are in the tonic of G major, a very rare occurrence in Mozarts chamber music writing. Yet, somehow, given that it is Mozart, it works. It always works, when it is Mozart. Even if one hears a little Haydn in this work (whom Mozart had not yet met) and also the influence of Giuseppe Sammartini, this string quartet is one more original genius creation of the young prodigy WM. Astonishing and Beautiful. Exquisite Sweetness. Mozartean sweetness, of course
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