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Background:

• Mozart composed 23 String Quartets.
• His most famous 6 String Quartets were written between 1782 and 1785 and were dedicated to his friend Joseph Haydn; they are K387, 421, 428, 458, 464 and 465.
• His final 3 Quartets were dedicated to the King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm II, who played the cello. These pieces were called the Prussian Quartets, and they give the cello the harder and more important parts: K575, 589, 590.

Recordings:

• The Complete Mozart Edition Box 6: Minuet for String Quartet in F K168a, Allegretto in B-flat major for String Quartet K589a, Movement for String Quartet in A App 72 Complied by Erik Smith.
  Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.
  Philips.
  Radio 3 Building a Library (2007): First Choice.

• String Quartets Volume 1: K169, 464, 589.
  String Quartets Volume 2: K80, 458, 499.
  String Quartets Volume 3: K155, 168, 172, 387, 575, 590.
  String Quartets Volume 4: K157, 159, 160, 465.
  String Quartets Volume 5: K156, 158, 170, 171, 173, 421, 428.
  Armida Quartett.
  Avi Music.
  BBC Music Magazine (2021): Instrumental Choice (Volume 3).
  Opus Klassik (2022): Winner Chamber Choice (Volume 4).
  Opus Klassik (2022): Winner Classical Without Borders (Volume 4).

• The Prussian Quartets: K575, 589, 590.
  Chiaroscuro Quartet.
  BIS.
  Radio 3 Record Review (2022): Record of the Week.

• Mozart, Schubert String Quartets.
  String Quartet K465.
  Chiaroscuro Quartet.
  Aparte.

• String Quartets dedicated to Joseph Haydn: K421, 458 & 464.
  Cuarteto Casals.
  Harmonia Mundi.
  Gramophone Magazine (2021): Editor’s Choice.

• String Quartets dedicated to Joseph Haydn: K428, 465 & 387.
  Cuarteto Casals.
  Harmonia Mundi.
  Gramophone Magazine (2014): Editor’s Choice.

• String Quartets Volume 1 ‘Prussian’ Quartets: K575, 589, 590.
  Doric String Quartet.
  Chandos.
  Gramophone Magazine (2021): Editor’s Choice.

• Dissonances String Quartets K421, 465, Divertimento K138.
  Quatuor Ebene.
  Erato.
  Gramophone Magazine (2011): Editor’s Choice.

• Mozart Complete Edition Box 7: String Quartets & Quintets.
  All 23 String Quartets.
  Quartetto Italiano.
  Philips.

• String Quartets in C major K157, No. 17 K458 & No. 22 K589.
  Jerusalem Quartet.
  Harmonia Mundi.
  BBC Music Magazine (2011): Chamber Choice.
  BBC Music Magazine Awards (2012): Winner Chamber Musi.c

• Quatuors K499 & K589.
  Quatuor Mosaipues.
  Naïve.

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