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String Quartet No. 20 in D major, K. 499 “Hoffmeister”

4 movements

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1786 · A major · 819 bars · 348 chords analysed

Named after its publisher, Mozart's friend Franz Anton Hoffmeister.

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, D major, B minor, E major, F♯ minor, A minor, F major, D minor, B♭ major, G major, E minor.