Two quintets by Mozart combining a single wind instrument with strings.
The Clarinet Quintet K. 581 dates from 1789 and was written for the clarinettist Anton Stadler (for whom the composer also wrote a concerto, a trio and the obligato parts in his opera La Clemenza di Tito).
Allegro
Larghetto
Minuetto
Allegretto Con Variazioni
The Horn Quintet K. 407 is an earlier work, dating from 1782. But, like the clarinet piece, it was also written for a virtuoso performer, Joseph Leutgeb, for whom Mozart wrote his four horn concertos.
The work is unusual in that, instead of employing the usual string quartet of two violins, viola and cello, it replaces the second violin with a viola, thus concentrating the tessitura of the piece in the same register as the horn.
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