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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478, is considered the first major piece composed for piano quartet in the chamber music repertoire. The piece is scored for violin, viola, cello, and piano. ==Composition and reception== Mozart received a commission for three quartets in 1785 from the publisher Franz Anton Hoffmeister. Hoffmeister thought this quartet was too difficult and that the public would not buy it, so he released Mozart from the obligation of completing the set. (Nine months later, Mozart composed a second quartet anyway, in E-flat major, K. 493).〔Melvin Berger, ''Guide to Chamber Music'', 2001, Dover. p. 300〕 Hofmeister's fear that the work was too difficult for amateurs was borne out by an article in the ''Journal des Luxus und der Moden'' published in Weimar in June 1788. The article highly praised Mozart and his work, but expressed dismay over attempts by amateurs to perform it: :"(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."〔Quoted in Deutsch 1965, 317–318. Deutsch suggests the reviewer may have been referring to the later E-flat quartet, K. 493.〕 The assessment accords with a view widely held of Mozart in his own lifetime, that of a greatly talented composer who wrote very difficult music.〔Solomon 1995〕 At the time the piece was written, the harpsichord was still widely used. Although the piece was originally published with the title "Quatuor pour le Clavecin ou Forte Piano, Violon, Tallie () et Basse," stylistic evidence suggests Mozart intended the piano part for "the 'Viennese' fortepiano of the period" and that our modern piano is "a perfectly acceptable alternative."〔Basil Smallman, ''The Piano Quartet and Quintet: Style, Structure, and Scoring'', 1994, Clarendon Press, p. 11〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Piano Quartet No. 1 (Mozart)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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