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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K. 421/417b is the second of the Quartets dedicated to Haydn and the only one of the set in a minor key. Though undated in the autograph,〔The Ten Celebrated String Quartets (2007), p. X〕 it is believed to have been completed in 1783, while his wife Constanze Mozart was in labour with her first child Raimund.〔John Irving, ''Mozart: The 'Haydn' Quartets''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1998): 13. "There is an anecdote, reported by Constanze to Vincent and Mary Novello in 1829, that Mozart wrote the D minor quartet K.421 while she was in labour with their first child, Raimund, and therefore around 17 June 1783."〕 Constanze stated that the rising string figures in the second movement corresponded to her cries from the other room. 〔Wolfgang Hildesheimer, ''Mozart''. Oxford: Oxford University Press (1977, 1985): "...we are probably right in assuming that it was the sudden ''forte'' of the two octave leaps and the following minor tenth (bars 31-32 of the ''andante''), a brief uproar that quiets down, in a syncopated passage, to ''piano''. These are figures that otherwise do not occur in Mozart."〕 == Structure == It is in four movements: # Allegro moderato # Andante (F major) # Menuetto and Trio (the latter in D major). Allegretto # Allegretto ma non troppo The first movement is characterized by a sharp contrast between the aperiodicity of the first subject group, characterized by Arnold Schoenberg as "prose-like," and the "wholly periodic" second subject group.〔Irving (1998): 33〕 In the Andante and the Minuet, "normal expectations of phraseology are confounded."〔Irving (1998): 35〕 The main part of the Minuet is in minuet sonata form,〔Charles Rosen, ''Sonata Forms''. New York: W. W. Norton (1988): 112 - 114〕 while "the contrasting major-mode Trio ... is ... almost embarrassingly lightweight on its own ... () makes a wonderful foil to the darker character of the Minuet."〔Irving (1998): 36〕 The last movement is a set of variations. 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「String Quartet No. 15 (Mozart)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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