스트링 퀄텟 / Mozart The 6 Haydn Quartets

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The "Haydn" Quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are a set of

six string quartets published in 1785 in Vienna, dedicated to the

composer Joseph Haydn :

1. String Quartet No. 14 in G major, K. 387 (1782), Hagen Quartet, from 0'00' to 31'53''
2. String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K. 421 (1783), Hagen Quartet, from 31'54' to 58'36''
3. String Quartet No. 16 in E-flat major, K. 428 (1783), Hagen Quartet, from 58'37'' to 1h28'30''
4. String Quartet No. 17 in B flat major ("Hunt"), K. 458 (1784),

Strings of the Parma Toscanini Philarmonic from 1h28'31'' to 1h50'27''
5. String Quartet No. 18 in A major, K. 464 (1785), Ariana Quartet, from 1h50'28'' to 2h19'57''
6. String Quartet No. 19 in C major ("Dissonance"), K. 465 (1785), Hagen Quartet, from 2h19'58'' to the end

Autographic Mozart's dedication to Haydn (in English) :

To my dear friend Haydn,
A father who had resolved to send his children out into the great world

took it to be his duty to confide them to the protection and

guidance of a very celebrated Man, especially when the latter by

good fortune was at the same time his best Friend. Here they are then,

O great Man and dearest Friend, these six children of mine.

They are, it is true, the fruit of a long and laborious endeavor,

yet the hope inspired in me by several Friends that it may be at least

partly compensated encourages me, and I flatter myself that this

offspring will serve to afford me solace one day. You, yourself,

dearest friend, told me of your satisfaction with them during your

last Visit to this Capital. It is this indulgence above all which urges

me to commend them to you and encourages me to hope that they

will not seem to you altogether unworthy of your favour. May it

therefore please you to receive them kindly and to be their Father,

Guide and Friend! From this moment I resign to you all my rights in

them, begging you however to look indulgently upon the defects

which the partiality of a Father's eye may have concealed from me,

and in spite of them to continue in your generous Friendship for him

who so greatly values it, in expectation of which I am, with all of my

Heart, my dearest Friend, your most Sincere Friend,
Wolfgang Amadeus. Mozart