Preußische Quartette

Pleyel: String quartet in d minor, op. 9/3
Haydn: String quartet in C major, Hob. III:45 (op. 50/2)
Mozart: String quartet in F major, K 590

Location: Helmut-List-Halle

Price: EUR 44 / 33 / 18 Order tickets

It was 1786 and Frederick the Great was finally dead. His nephew and heir, Friedrich Wilhelm II, could assume the throne. Friedrich’s reign in Prussia brought about a new gregariousness at court and soon composers were arriving to sweeten the cello-playing monarch’s leisure time with string quartets.

Quatuor Mosaïques show us how playfully easy Mozart, Haydn and Haydn’s pupil Pleyel fulfilled their duties in Prussia as the styriarte audience is treated to Viennese cheerfulness and Mozart melancholy without a hint of Prussian drill.

This concert will be broadcast on Ö1 on July 24,10:05 am