Two great clarinet quintets


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Mozart's four-movement piece is arranged for clarinet, two violins, viola, and cello. Brahms's Clarinet Quintet in B minor, also in four movements, is equally popular and often recorded with Mozart's work.







Mozart


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From the author of 1791: Mozarts Last Year and general editor of The Mozart Compendium, this international bestseller has received widespread critical acclaim. Entertainingly and authoritatively written, and richly illustrated with contemporary paintings and engravings, it provides a vivid account of the last decade of Mozarts short but amazingly prolific career one of the most remarkable periods in the entire history of Western music.




Quintet in A major, K. 581


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Clarinet quintet (clarinet, 2 violins, viola, violincello).







Clarinet Quintet K. 581


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Mozart's Music of Friends


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This study analyzes chamber music from Mozart's time within its highly social salon-performance context.




Mozart, His Character, His Work


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A picture of Mozart's "character and of the personalities and events that exercised a decisive influence upon it. The works that are mentioned are not described, but characterized from the point of view of their time and--so far as possible--of our relation to them." --Preface.