Mozart’s six string quartets dedicated to Haydn aren’t just any other pieces of 18-century chamber music: they proved to be a prophecy of the music that was to come in the next two hundred years. Notably, in the second movement of K 428 we clearly hear the famous “Tristan” theme, while the introduction in the first movement of K 465 (the so-called “dissonant”) sounds much like Bloch or Shostakovich!
I have created this video farce in order to illustrate these points, using the above-mentioned musical excerpts from Mozart’s quartets. The photos of Wagner and Shostakovich are shown.
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