Quintet for Strings no. 5 in D major

The String Quintet No. 5 in D major, K. 593 was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Like all of Mozart's string quintets, it is a "viola quintet" in that it is scored for string quartet and an extra viola (two violins, two violas and cello).

Movements

The work is in standard four movement form:

• I. Larghetto - Allegro
• II. Adagio
• III. Menuetto: Allegretto
• IV. Allegro

According to the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe ^[1], the finale was printed, and known for some time, in an inauthentic edition, in which its main theme, originally a descending chromatic scale fragment, was replaced in most of its appearances in the movement by a more complicated zigzag ("Zickzackform") themelet.

References

External links

• Quintett in D: Score and critical report (German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
• String Quintet No. 5: Free scores at the International Music Score Library Project.
• Performance by the Orion Quartet and Ida Kavafian, viola from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format