w. a. mozart - kv c 17.11 - cassation for wind quartet in e flat major (georg lickl)

^ Reginald Barrett-Ayres, Joseph Haydn and the String Quartet.'An analogous contiguous enharmonic relationship occurs in Mozart's String Quartet in E ♭ major, K. ^ Roger Kamien and Naphtali Wagner, 'Bridge Themes within a Chromaticized Voice Exchange in Mozart Expositions' Music Theory Spectrum 19 1 (1997): 11 - 12, footnote 12.The last movement 'can best be described as being an abridged rondo form.' References

Throughout the third movement Mozart 'makes use of a pedal point in the bass, thus giving the music an entrancing rustic effect.' The ostentatious dissonances of its opening almost have an antique flavour, caused by the collision of semitonal ascents and descents, and this strongly suggests the opening subject of the first movement, so surprisingly isolated there.' Other commentators hear it as pointing forward to Johannes Brahms. The first movement is highly chromatic, with the chromaticized bridge theme in the exposition being one of several examples, the end of the exposition being another. Menuetto & Trio (the latter in B-flat major) It is in four movements, with the Minuet third: This is the third of the Haydn Quartets, a set of six string quartets he wrote during his first few years in Vienna and later dedicated to Joseph Haydn.

428/421b, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1783.

W. a. mozart - kv c 17.11 - cassation for wind quartet in e flat major (georg lickl)