String Quartet No. 14 (Mozart) String Quartet No. 14 (Mozart) The String Quartet No. 14 in G major, K. 387, nicknamed the "Spring" quartet, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1782 while in Vienna. In the composer's inscription on the title page of the autograph score is stated: ""li 31 di decembre 1782 in vienna"". The work was perhaps edited in 1783. This is the first of the Haydn Quartets, a set of six string quartets he wrote during his first few years in Vienna in honor of the composer Joseph Haydn, who is generally viewed as the father of the string quartet form.
Kronos Quartet Performs Alfred Schnittke: The Complete String Quartets Kronos Quartet Performs Alfred Schnittke: The Complete String Quartets Kronos Quartet Performs Alfred Schnittke: The Complete String Quartets is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet. The double CD contains all four of Russian composer Alfred Schnittke's "startling" string quartets. "String Quartet No.3" was recorded and released in 1988; the other three were recorded between 1994 and 1996 and released in 1998. The music of Alfred Schnittke became very popular in the United States in the 1990s, and the Kronos Quartet were among many "influential international figures" who played his music. They had recorded a Schnittke composition ("String Quartet No.3")