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The String Quartet in D Major written in 1786 in Vienna by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by — if not indeed written for — his friend Franz Anton Hoffmeister (usually given the KV number 499) is a work in four movements:

# Allegretto, in D major
# section in D minor
# , in G major
# Allegro, in D major

(For an explanation of these terms see the article Tempo .)

  • The menuetto and its trio give good examples of this in brief, with the brief irregular near- Canon between first violin and viola in the second half of the main portion of the minuet, and the double imitations (between the violins, and between the viola and cello) going on in the trio, but this is only an example, just as this is only one particularly noticeably remarkable quality of this singleton quartet.


  • Which knew — to paraphrase Alfred Einstein in his book ''Mozart, His Character, His Work'', who regards this as one of Mozart's contributions — only two styles, the ''galant'' style of melody over bare accompaniment on the one hand, and the wooden ''contrappunto osservato'' with which they attempted to evoke Renaissance polyphony, but very rarely could consider combining them let alone bending them at the edges.)



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Einstein, Alfred. ''Mozart, His Character, His Work.'' London: Oxford University Press. First Edition: 1945. Translated from the German by Arthur Mendel and Nathan Broder .