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String Quintet No. 2 (Mozart)

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The last movement is a set of variations which, Wigmore points out, often treats the theme quite freely. The fifth variation, begun softly by violas (horns in the original wind version) is on a larger scale and is in the relative major key of C minor, E flat major. The seventh variation explores
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The lyrical slow movement is unremarkable structurally. However, throughout the work Mozart made small adjustments to the musical material of the original wind serenade when rewriting the music for strings, one of which can be heard in the second subject of this movement. In the string quintet
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Mozart contrasts the stark opening theme with a lyrical second subject in the relative major – E flat. However, in the recapitulation the second subject returns in C minor, rather than C major, allowing the whole movement to conclude uncompromisingly in C minor.
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Since the wind serenade used pairs of oboes and clarinets, it was a straightforward matter to map these to the pairs of violins and violas. The arrangement is so successful that Richard Wigmore asserts, in his sleeve notes to the recording by the
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that "without prior knowledge few would guess that the work was not conceived for string quintet, even if the textures (except in the minuet) are generally simpler, less polyphonic than in K515 and 516".
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the theme with chromatic harmonies. It is only with the final variation that the work finally turns to C major.
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Zaslaw N. The Non-Canonic Status of Mozart's Canons. Eighteenth-Century Music. 2006 Mar 1;3(1):109-23.
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The first eight bars of the trio, showing the pairs of instruments answering in mirror canon
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in which the violin enters first, with the cello following at an interval of one bar.
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The opening of the Minuetto, with the cello entering in canon with the first violin
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note into the descending scale motif, and adjusts the rhythm to accommodate it.
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Charles Rosen, "The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven", 1997, Norton
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Serenade in C minor (original version for wind octet)
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Index

C minor
K.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
string quintets
string quartet
viola
violins
cello
K. 515
K. 516
Serenade No. 12 for Winds in C minor K. 388/384a
Nash Ensemble


movement
Allegro
cut time
cut time
Andante
chromatic
Menuetto
canon
Mirror canon


Hyperion album CDA67861/3
Score
critical report
Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
String Quintet No.2

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