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Stoke Newington Early Music Festival: Consone Quartet in Vienna
Schubert, Mozart and Haydn
Part of the Stoke Newington Early Music Festival 2017
Add to my Calendar 12-07-2017 19:30 12-07-2017 21:30 36 Stoke Newington Early Music Festival: Consone Quartet in Vienna Vienna in the late 1700s and early 1800s was a hive of musical creativity; Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert all lived and worked there – with the former, the so-called “father of the string quartet” proving to be a great inspiration to both of the younger composers. Haydn and Mozart are known to have played string quartets together. Indeed, Mozart dedicated a set of six quartets to his friend and inspiration. Mozart was a huge inspiration for Schubert, “O Mozart! Immortal Mozart! What countless impressions of a brighter, better life hast thou stamped upon our souls!” The Consone Quartet celebrates these greats of the classical era in a programme of Haydn, Mozart and Schubert. The Old Church, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
The Old Church
Clissold Park
Stoke Newington
London
N16 0JR
England
Programme
Franz Schubert – Overture in C Minor, D.8
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quartet no.14 in G major, K.387
Joseph Haydn – String Quartet no.40 in F major 'Dream', Op.50, no.5, Hob III:48
Performers
Consone Quartet
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Programme Note
Vienna in the late 1700s and early 1800s was a hive of musical creativity; Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert all lived and worked there – with the former, the so-called “father of the string quartet” proving to be a great inspiration to both of the younger composers. Haydn and Mozart are known to have played string quartets together. Indeed, Mozart dedicated a set of six quartets to his friend and inspiration. Mozart was a huge inspiration for Schubert, “O Mozart! Immortal Mozart! What countless impressions of a brighter, better life hast thou stamped upon our souls!”
The Consone Quartet celebrates these greats of the classical era in a programme of Haydn, Mozart and Schubert.
