Mozart's Last 10 String Quartets (Pick 3)

Started by ChamberNut, August 19, 2009, 07:14:23 AM

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Choose your 3 favorite Mozart String Quartets out of the last 10

#14 in G, K.387
6 (42.9%)
#15 in  D minor, K.421
6 (42.9%)
#16 in E flat, K.428
6 (42.9%)
#17 in B flat, K.458 "Hunt"
6 (42.9%)
#18 in A, K.464
6 (42.9%)
#19 in C, K.465 "Dissonant"
9 (64.3%)
#20 in D, K.499 "Hoffmeister"
4 (28.6%)
#21 in D, K.575
3 (21.4%)
#22 in B flat, K.589
2 (14.3%)
#23 in F, K.590
3 (21.4%)

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karlhenning

#40
August 20, 2009, 07:25:33 AM
Dave, you are the man.

DavidW

#41
August 20, 2009, 08:19:05 AM
I wonder if Dissonant and Hunt are so popular simply because they have names that serve as anchors, so much more personal than a #.  That's why I buck the trend my talking about the kv 499. :D

Opus106

#42
August 20, 2009, 08:34:00 AM
Quote from: DavidW on August 20, 2009, 08:19:05 AM
I wonder if Dissonant and Hunt are so popular simply because they have names that serve as anchors, so much more personal than a #.  That's why I buck the trend my talking about the kv 499. :D

Yet no love for the Hoffmeister to Ray's dismay. This love for the named works extends beyond Mozart's quartets to Beethoven's sonatas, Mahler's symphonies, Chopin's stuff, et cetera.
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ChamberNut

#43
August 20, 2009, 09:16:08 AM
As for why I enjoy K.499 so much, is it's somewhat more simplistic approach.  It just seems to flow so beautifully from beginning to end.

And, as far as minuet movements (Menuetto?) go, is probably one of the best ones I've heard in all the classical era.  (While normally I catch a few "zzzz" and swallow a few flies during many a classical minuetto)  ;D

Dancing Divertimentian

#44
August 20, 2009, 07:14:59 PM
Quote from: ChamberNut on August 20, 2009, 06:47:24 AM
Divertimenti aren't included here, sorry.


.....slinks away...... :'(
Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

Dancing Divertimentian

#45
August 20, 2009, 07:17:15 PM
Quote from: Herman on August 20, 2009, 06:57:14 AM
However I think it's fair to say these are all amazing works, from 387 through 590. I have been listening to these quartets for thirty years now, and the remain inexhaustible.

Hear, hear.
Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

Rod Corkin

#46
August 21, 2009, 01:47:18 AM
Quote from: ChamberNut on August 20, 2009, 06:47:24 AM
Divertimenti aren't included here, sorry.

What is your problem Rod, if you don't like the poll/topic, no one is forcing you to participate in any of them?  Several actually do like to participate in them, cause it's fun.  It is only for interest and curiosity's sake.

Just a personal observation CN. I recall long ago being chastised heavily by the great and good here when I dared to pit Bach and Handel against each other in a 'musical showdown', but I guess it would be seen as a fun conversation starter now? How times change...  ;D
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karlhenning

#47
August 21, 2009, 03:48:52 AM
Quote from: DavidW on August 20, 2009, 08:19:05 AM
I wonder if Dissonant and Hunt are so popular simply because they have names that serve as anchors, so much more personal than a #.

On the same lines as Pick three Beethoven piano sonatas?-- Moonlight, Appassionata & Pathétique!

karlhenning

#48
August 21, 2009, 03:49:30 AM
Quote from: Rod Corkin on August 21, 2009, 01:47:18 AM
Just a personal observation CN. I recall long ago being chastised heavily by the great and good here when I dared to pit Bach and Handel against each other in a 'musical showdown', but I guess it would be seen as a fun conversation starter now?

No, that remains dunderheaded.

Herman

#49
August 21, 2009, 03:57:30 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on August 21, 2009, 03:48:52 AM
On the same lines as Pick three Beethoven piano sonatas?-- Moonlight, Appassionata & Pathétique!

the Disso Quartet obviously has the added attraction of having the anecdote attached to it that some of the folks first exposed to this piece flipped their lid because Mozart didn't follow the rules. This would make it the Sacre of the classical string quartet literature. People always love those stories. Of course the G major 387 is the real innovative quartet in the six Haydn quartets.

ChamberNut

#50
August 21, 2009, 04:34:49 AM
The opening of the Dissonant quartet is still my favorite opening of any quartet!  8)

DavidW

#51
August 21, 2009, 04:37:46 AM
Quote from: ChamberNut on August 21, 2009, 04:34:49 AM
The opening of the Dissonant quartet is still my favorite opening of any quartet!  8)

I think LvB Op 59 #1 for me. :)  Or perhaps DSCH #8.

ChamberNut

#52
August 21, 2009, 04:38:56 AM
Quote from: DavidW on August 21, 2009, 04:37:46 AM
I think LvB Op 59 #1 for me. :)  Or perhaps DSCH #8.

Sounds like another Top 10 thread idea to me David.  Just for Rod!  ;D

Valentino

#53
August 21, 2009, 11:17:08 AM
Great Idea. I hereby nominate Schubert D887, LvB op.95 and Haydn "Quinten".
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Mozart

#54
August 21, 2009, 11:18:18 AM
You all suck for not picking the hoffmeister
"I am the musical tree, eat of my fruit and your spirit shall rejoiceth!"
- Amadeus 6:26

ChamberNut

#55
August 21, 2009, 11:24:47 AM
Quote from: Mozart on August 21, 2009, 11:18:18 AM
You all suck for not picking the hoffmeister

Thanks for being my new best friend!  ;D

Mozart

#56
August 21, 2009, 12:33:00 PM
Quote from: ChamberNut on August 21, 2009, 11:24:47 AM
Thanks for being my new best friend!  ;D

Which other 2 did you pick? I choose 15 and 16  :)
"I am the musical tree, eat of my fruit and your spirit shall rejoiceth!"
- Amadeus 6:26

ChamberNut

#57
August 21, 2009, 06:31:03 PM
Quote from: Mozart on August 21, 2009, 12:33:00 PM
Which other 2 did you pick? I choose 15 and 16  :)

18 & 19.

Dr. Dread

#58
August 21, 2009, 06:32:36 PM
Are you still friends?

ChamberNut

#59
August 21, 2009, 06:36:14 PM
Quote from: MN Dave on August 21, 2009, 06:32:36 PM
Are you still friends?

Well, I think those differences are "reconcilable"  ;D  I'm just happy someone else out there likes the Hoffmeister.  :D
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