Quatuor Mosaïques
Friday
11
November
2022
18:30
Mozart-Saal
Performers
Quatuor Mosaïques
Erich Höbarth, Violine
Andrea Bischof, Violine
Anita Mitterer, Viola
Christophe Coin, Violoncello
Programme
Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga
Streichquartett Nr. 2 A-Dur (1824))
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Streichquartett C-Dur K 465 »Dissonanzen-Quartett« (1785)
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Franz Schubert
Streichquartett d-moll D 810 »Der Tod und das Mädchen« (1824)
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Zugabe:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
3. Satz: Menuetto. Allegro – Trio (Streichquartett Es-Dur K 421b) (1783)
Subscription series
Quatuor Mosaïques
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Prodigies and early perfection
»Prodigies and early perfection« could be the motto for the season opener of the Quatuor Mosaïques. There are only a handful of works by Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga, the »Spanish Mozart«, since tuberculosis took him shortly before his 20th birthday. With him, too, the art of music buried, as Grillparzer wrote two years later about Schubert, "a rich possession, but even more beautiful hopes. Arriaga's three string quartets in particular, which are strikingly close to Schubert and which the Quatuor Mosaïques takes up with beautiful regularity, emphasize the painfulness of his early loss for the music world. The work's association with Mozart's »Dissonance Quartet« and Schubert's famous D minor quartet »Death and the Maiden« guarantees a dramaturgically watertight concert experience.