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Mozart’s String Quartet in D Major K. 575 is one of the three final quartets which the famous classical composer put on paper in the two years before his early death. These three works got their epithet as the »Prussian Quartets« because Mozart originally composed them on behalf of the cello playing Prussian King Wilhelm II. – even if the composer ultimately had to publish them elsewhere for various reasons, however. Even so, for the sake of the cello-loving king, Mozart created a particularly important and melodious cello voice in these compositions. Such an equilibrium of voices was something new at that time and a pioneering step towards the compositions of later associates, such as Beethoven and Schubert.

The 4th movement of the Quartet in D Major, in particular, starts with a gorgeous and fleet-footed cello cantilena, which forms the melodic starting point of the spirited allegretto. It comes as no surprise then that the Quatuor Ébène specifically made use of these »Prussian Quartets« in 2024 to introduce Yuya Okamoto, the quartet’s new cellist.

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