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String Quartet No. 1 in G major, K. 80/73f

4 movements

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1770 · G major · 275 bars · 284 chords analysed

Mozart's first quartet, written at 14 in an inn at Lodi during his first Italian tour.

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: G major, D major, C major.