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.
String Quartet in D major (Britten) "it sounds more or less as I intended it". In 1974, the composer revised it for publication, at the urging of Donald Mitchell. The revisions seem to have been fairly small. The quartet is in three movements: A complete performance takes about 19 minutes. Musicologist Peter Evans considered it an immediate background to, and to strongly foreshadow, Britten's "Sinfonietta", which was published in 1932 as his Op. 1. String Quartet in D major (Britten) String Quartet in D major (it has neither an official number nor an opus number) by English composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) was written in 1931. He