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String Quartet No. 18 in A major, K. 464 (Op. 10, No. 5)

1 movement

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1785 · A major · 104 bars · 138 chords analysed

Beethoven admired this quartet so much that he copied it out by hand and modelled his Op. 18 No. 5 on it.

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: A major, E major, D major, B major.