String Quintet No. 1 (Mozart)

String Quintet No. 1 (Mozart)

The String Quintet No. 1 in B flat major, K. 174, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in December 1773. Like all of Mozart's string quintets, this work is a "viola quintet" in that is scored for string quartet and an extra viola (two violins, two violas and cello).

Mozart composed this quintet a few months following the composition of the Vienna Quartets, K. 168-173 - indeed this work immediately followed that set in the Köchel catalogue.

Movements

The work is in standard four movement form:
*I. Allegro moderato
*II. Adagio
*III. Menuetto ma allegretto
*IV. Allegro

References

*Charles Rosen, "The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven", 1997, Norton


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