String Quartet No. 19 (Mozart)

The Dissonance is a String Quartet in C Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, KV 465

The String Quartet, Mozart completed on 14 January 1785 got its name from the opening bars of the introductory Adagio with for that time unfamiliar intersecting cross stands and tonal friction ( dissonance ). Most contemporaries lacked for these "modern" music nor understanding. Because of the theme in the second movement, the quartet contributes chamber musicians under the nickname "Caroline". The third set consists of a merry minuet, followed by a Trio in C Minor. The fourth movement is, as the opening sentence, written in sonata form, in which the subject appears at the beginning of the second part in a minor variant.

The Dissonance represents the last of the six 1782-1785 composed and quartets dedicated to Haydn ( so-called " Haydn Quartets ", K. 387, 421, 428, 458, 464, 465 ). It is one of the " steepest peaks of European chamber music at all " (J. Dohm ).