To make this Dissonace Quartet complete,I'll echo with Papa Haydn's quartet Op 33 which Mozart was inspired by 4 years before and Wolffy said to Haydn "Your good opinion encourages me to offer these string quartets to you, and leads me to hope that you will not consider them wholly unworthy of your favour. Please, then, receive them kindly and be to them a father, guide, and friend!"
This one is interrelated quartet with the other two,the Haydn andMozart.
This is the first of Brahms' quartets.He regarded the string quartet as a particularly important genre since Mozart had taken particular trouble over the six Haydn Quartets ,he intended to do his very best to turn out one or two passably decent ones.Brahms insisted on hearing a secret performance of this Op. 51 quartet before it was published, after which he substantially revised it.
During Brahms's lifetime, the string quartet, like the symphony, was a genre dominated by the contributions of Beethoven. In choosing the key of C minor for the first of his quartets, Brahms may have been seeking to acknowledge as well as break free from Beethoven's influence, since Beethoven composed some of his greatest and most characteristic works in C minor.(Brahms likewise chose the key of C minor for his First Symphony.)
To make this Dissonace Quartet complete,I'll echo with Papa Haydn's quartet Op 33 which Mozart was inspired by 4 years before and Wolffy said to Haydn "Your good opinion encourages me to offer these string quartets to you, and leads me to hope that you will not consider them wholly unworthy of your favour. Please, then, receive them kindly and be to them a father, guide, and friend!"
Thanks.
After hearing Mozart's set of quartets dedicated to him, Haydn remarked that Mozart "is the greatest composer known to me in person or by name. He has taste and, what is more, the most profound knowledge of composition."