{"product_id":"alf-98-ep272","title":"Piano Quartets in G minor K478 and E flat K493","description":"\u003cb\u003ePiano Quartets in G minor K478 and E flat K493 (Book)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1785, Mozart received a commission from the publisher Franz Anton Hoffmeister for three quartets of the present instrumentation. The first composed, K478 in G minor, is considered the first major work for piano quartet in the chamber music repertoire. Hoffmeister, unfortunately, considered the piece too difficult for amateurs and feared the public would not buy it; and so he released Mozart from the obligation to complete the set. Happily, however, Mozart composed a second quartet the following year, that in Eb Major, K493.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publisher's misgivings regarding the G minor quartet were borne out by a 1788 article in the Weimar 'Journal des Luxus und der Moden'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[as performed by amateurs] it could not please: everybody yawned with boredom over the incomprehensible 'tintamarre' of 4 instruments which did not keep together for four bars on end, and whose senseless 'concentus' never allowed any unity of feeling; but it 'had' to please, it 'had' to be praised! ... what a difference when this much-advertised work of art is performed with the highest degree of accuracy by four skilled musicians who have studied it carefully.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmazingly to us today, this agrees with the widely held view of Mozart during his lifetime; that of a greatly gifted composer who wrote extremely difficult music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eItem No:\u003c\/b\u003e    98-EP272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e    Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e    104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e    Edition Peters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear Published:\u003c\/b\u003e    2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"ALFRED","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67732194525375,"sku":"ALF EP272","price":39.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1335\/9063\/files\/98-EP272.jpg?v=1792732704","url":"https:\/\/www.imaginethismusic.com\/products\/alf-98-ep272","provider":"Imagine This Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}