String Quintet No. 5 (Mozart)

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File:Mozart drawing Doris Stock 1789.jpg
Stock's 1789 miniature of Mozart

The String Quintet No. 5 in D major, K. 593 was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1790. Like all of Mozart's string quintets, it is a "viola quintet" in that it is scored for string quartet and an extra viola (two violins, two violas and cello).

Movements

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The work is in standard four movement form:

  1. Larghetto 3
    4
    – Allegro cut time – Larghetto 3
    4
    – Primo Tempo cut time
  2. Adagio 3
    4
    in G major
  3. Menuetto: Allegretto 3
    4
    – Trio
  4. Allegro 6
    8

According to the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe,[1] the finale was printed, and known for some time, in an inauthentic edition, in which its main theme, originally a descending chromatic scale fragment, was replaced in most of its appearances in the movement by a more complicated zigzag ("Zickzackform") theme.

References

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