The Classical Events logo, in black-and-white
Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Divertimento String Quartet Concert

Mozart, Webern & Beethoven

Add to my Calendar 26-01-2020 15:00 26-01-2020 17:00 36 Divertimento String Quartet Concert Divertimento String Quartet’s programme begins with Mozart’s Quartet in D, K 421 which is one of his most celebrated quartets.  An amusing anecdote from Mozart’s wife, Constanza, recounts that Wolfgang was composing the quartet whilst she was giving birth in the next room and attributed the rising figures in the second movement to her cries of pain.    Anton Webern’s 6 Bagatelles are extremely short and concise, lasting only 4 minutes in total. Webern said they are “not much in quantity, but much in content”.    In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven, Divertimento String Quartet finish the concert with a performance of his String Quartet in F, Op 59 No 1. At the request of the Russian Ambassador to Vienna who commissioned this work, Beethoven used a Russian folk song in the last movement.  Minstrels Music Centre, Launceston DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Minstrels Music Centre
Canworthy Water
Launceston
Cornwall
PL15 8UB
England

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quartet no.15 in D minor, K.421/417b
Anton Webern – 6 Bagatellen, Op.9
Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet in F major 'Razumovsky', Op.59 no.1

Performers

Divertimento String Quartet

Programme Note

Divertimento String Quartet’s programme begins with Mozart’s Quartet in D, K 421 which is one of his most celebrated quartets.  An amusing anecdote from Mozart’s wife, Constanza, recounts that Wolfgang was composing the quartet whilst she was giving birth in the next room and attributed the rising figures in the second movement to her cries of pain. 

 

Anton Webern’s 6 Bagatelles are extremely short and concise, lasting only 4 minutes in total. Webern said they are “not much in quantity, but much in content”. 

 

In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven, Divertimento String Quartet finish the concert with a performance of his String Quartet in F, Op 59 No 1. At the request of the Russian Ambassador to Vienna who commissioned this work, Beethoven used a Russian folk song in the last movement. 

Divertimento String Quartet

Get a route map

Your Map