Minuets from String quartets by Boccherini, Haydn, Mozart, Brahms & Mendelssohn

Oliver Wille, guest professor

Group class

For this masterclass with all the students of the String Quartets Chair, Wille explains different issues related to String quartet's Minuets. He proposes a game: each Quartet will play a Minuet. He will ask them about this and then they will talk about the special characteristics for each one. They play and talk about the next examples:
Minuetto from Quintet in E major op. 11 no. 5 G 275 by Boccherini.
Minuet "in pizzicato" from Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart.
Trio from Minuetto op. 1 no. 1 by Haydn.
String quartet in D minor K 421 by Mozart (dedicated to Haydn).
Minuet from op. 76 no. 6 by Haydn.
Example from String quartet op. 20 no. 4 by Haydn.
String quartet K 465 "Dissonance" by Mozart.
Example from String quartet op. 76 no. 2 by Haydn.
Minuet from the op. 33 no. 2 "The Joke" by Haydn.
Minuet from String quartet op. 54 no. 2 by Haydn.
Minuetto & Trio from the op. 50 no. 6 by Haydn.
Example from Quartet K 575 by Mozart.
String quartet in A minor op. 51 no. 2 by Brahms: quasi Minuetto.
Trio from String quartet op. 41 no. 3 by Mendelssohn.

Language: English