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Salzburg Mozartwoche (5) - Hagen Quartet, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, 30 January 2024
Grosser Saal, MozarteumHaydn: String Quartet in D minor, op.76 no.2, Hob. III:76, ‘Fifths’ Mozart: String Quartet in D minor, KV 421/417b Beethoven: String Quartet in C-sharp minor, op.131 Lukas Hagen, Rainer Schmidt (violins)Veronika Hagen (viola)Clemens Hagen (cello)Image: Wolfgang Lienbacher Three string quartets in minor keys, two of them in the same minor key, might sound like an overload of misery, or at least darkness, but matters were more mixed in this Hagen Quartet Mozartwoche recital. It was not exactly full of the joys of spring, but then we have some way to go in our Winterreise before we reach such joys. More to the point, we could enjoy a cornucopia of invention from three of the supreme masters of the genre, Mozart rightly at the centre. Haydn was, of course, as close to the inventor of the string quartet as makes little matter, certainly its ‘father’ in a way he […]
2023-07-15 00:14:47
Neither Mozart nor his publisher called this piece “The Hunt”, as others have called it. However, the first movement of this composition evidently evoked the ‘chasse’ topic, the main components of which were a 6/8 time signature. The quartet’s popularity is reflected in its use in various films, such as The Adventures of Huck Finn, Mystery Date, The Royal Tenenbaums and Star Trek: Insurrection. Here is the Hagen Quartet from Salzburg to play this delightful music for you:
2022-02-15 18:30:00
Mozart, who had been profoundly moved by Haydn’s String Quartets op. 33, composed the six quartets of which this is one, between 1782 and 1785 and he dedicated them to his friend Joseph Haydn with the words: “Here they are then, O great man and dearest friend, these six children of mine. They are, it is true, the fruit of long and laborious efforts.” The Hagen Quartet, consisting of the siblings Lukas, Veronika and Clemens Hagen along with the violinist Rainer Schmidt, attracted great attention and scored impressive successes while its members were still students at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Their international career began with their appearance at the
2021-12-08 13:30:53
The A-minor Quartet by Franz Schubert was first performed in July of 1824 by the members of the Schuppanzigh Quartet, which had premiered most of Beethoven’s quartets. It would be the only one of Schubert’s chamber works published in his lifetime. Schubert scholar Maurice Brown, writing in 1958, noted: “The Quartet in A minor is a beloved work; in some way we group it with the ‘Unfinished’ Symphony as giving us the heart of the composer. But with the quartet as with the symphony, it is doing him an injustice to let the emotional directness, the poetry, the sheer beauty