You can really feel the joy of making music in the interpretation by the Julia Fischer Quartet of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s String Quartet No. 15. Chamber music is especially close to Fischer’s heart, which is why the successful German violinist enjoys performing with her string quartet – for example here at the Rheingau Music Festival 2022.
The String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K. 421 is one of the six “Haydn Quartets” that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) wrote in Vienna between 1782 and 1785 and dedicated to Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809). Mozart was friends with Haydn, who was more than 20 years older and very famous in his time. Haydn may even have been a kind of mentor for Mozart. The two composers certainly inspired each other. When Haydn heard the quartets that were dedicated to him, he is reported to have said of Mozart that he was “the greatest composer I know in person and in name.” Mozart probably composed String Quartet No. 15 in 1783. It is said that his wife Constanze was in labor with their first son at the time and that the rising violin figures in the second movement recall her cries.
(00:00) I. Allegro moderato
(07:24) II. Andante
(14:12) III. Menuetto and Trio. Allegretto
(17:50) IV. Allegretto ma non troppo
Julia Fischer Quartet:
Julia Fischer | VIOLIN
Alexander Sitkovetsky | VIOLIN
Nils Mönkemeyer | VIOLA
Benjamin Nyffenegger | CELLO
Julia Fischer was born in Munich in 1983 to German-Slovakian parents. She received her first tuition on the violin at the age of three. A short time later her mother, the pianist Viera Fischer, introduced her daughter to the piano. At the age of nine, Julia Fischer began studying with renowned violin professor Ana Chumachenco at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich. She succeeded Chumachenco in 2011, thereby coming full circle. Fischer began touring internationally at the age of 15. She performed with the world’s greatest orchestras, recorded numerous albums and won prestigious prizes including the Gramophone Classical Music Award and the BBC Music Magazine Award. But solo performances with ensembles weren’t enough. Fischer is also a brilliant chamber musician. Together with violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky, violist Nils Mönkemeyer and cellist Benjamin Nyffenegger, she founded the Julia Fischer Quartet in 2012. Fischer plays a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (1742) as well as a new one by Philipp Augustin (2018).
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