Great String Quartets at Edinburgh

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Edinburgh International Festival: Great String Quartets at Edinburgh: Quatuor Mosaïques

Quatuor Mosaïques

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Quatuor Mosaïques play Mozart and Beethoven at the Queen's Hall. From the 1999 festival.

Period instrument string quartet, the Quatuor Mosaïques, perform the final works for string quartet by Mozart and Beethoven at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh at the 1999 festival.

Pioneers of the period instrument string quartet, the Quatuor Mosaïques, appeared at the Queen's Hall in 1999 as part of the Festival's rich chamber music series. 

The concert begins with an early work by the teenage Mozart dating from his visit to Milan followed by the final quartets ever written by Beethoven and Mozart respectively. Written a year before his death, Beethoven's quartet Op 135 is surprisingly bright and congenial but with the subtlety of great experience and Mozart's late F major quartet features a prominent cello part dedicated to the cello-playing King Frederick William II of Prussia. 

Mozart: String Quartet in G major K.156
Beethoven: String Quartet in F major Op 135
Mozart: String Quartet in F major K.590

Edinburgh International Festival: Great String Quartets at Edinburgh

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Stand-out performances from past Edinburgh International Festival Queen's Hall recitals.

Stand-out performances from some of the great string quartets to have appeared in concert at the Queen's Hall during the Edinburgh International Festival.

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