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String Quartet in C major, K. 170

4 movements

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1773 · C major · 333 bars · 98 chords analysed

One of the six “Viennese” quartets of 1773, written after Mozart had studied Haydn's Op. 20.

Mozart's 23 quartets include the six he dedicated to Haydn in 1785 — the fruit, he wrote, of “long and laborious effort” — and the three “Prussian” quartets written for a cello-playing king.

Keys visited: C major.