String Quartet No. 17 (Mozart)

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's String Quartet No. 17 in B-flat major, K. 458, nicknamed "The Hunt", is the fourth of the Quartets dedicated to Haydn. It was completed in 1784.^[1] It is in four movements:

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and sketched 65 bars (p. 17).

References

^ John Irving, Mozart: The 'Haydn' Quartets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1998): 13. "K. 458 was entered in Mozart's own handwritten thematic catalogue on 9 November 1784."
^ Irving (1998): 69

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v t e String quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Lodi Quartet	No. 1 in G major, K. 80/73f (Lodi)
Milanese Quartets	No. 2 in D major, K. 155/134a No. 3 in G major, K. 156/143b No. 4 in C major, K. 157 No. 5 in F major, K. 158 No. 6 in B flat major, K. 159 No. 7 in E flat major, K. 160/159a
Viennese Quartets	No. 8 in F major, K. 168 No. 9 in A major, K. 169 No. 10 in C major, K. 170 No. 11 in E flat major, K. 171 No. 12 in B flat major, K. 172 No. 13 in D minor, K. 173
Haydn Quartets	No. 14 in G major, K. 387 (Spring) No. 15 in D minor, K. 421/417b No. 16 in E flat major, K. 428/421b No. 17 in B flat major, K. 458 (Hunt) No. 18 in A major, K. 464 (Drum) No. 19 in C major, K. 465 (Dissonance)
Hoffmeister Quartet	No. 20 in D major, K. 499 (Hoffmeister)
Prussian Quartets	No. 21 in D major, K. 575 (The Violet) No. 22 in B flat major, K. 589 No. 23 in F major, K. 590
List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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