Talk:String Quartet No. 14 (Mozart)

composing crises
Actually, Mozart experienced not close to a crisis, but an actual one. And another, somewhat before writing The Marriage of Figaro. The POV and poeticizing isn't necessary there. Schissel-nonLop! 00:51, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Is there any reason "String Quartet No. 14" redirects here and only here? Many composers have 14 string quartets, and some of them are well known (ex. Beethoven's). I recommend the creation of a sorting page. 142.68.220.81 (talk) 20:17, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

I suppose there's always something to learn, but I've been listening to this quartet on and off for fifty-five years at least, and this is the first time I've ever come across the claim that it is nicknamed the 'Spring' quartet. Unless this is some kind of a joke, by whom, when, and where?Delahays (talk) 21:11, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Seems like a German thing. Here's a 1978 LP by the Alban Berg Quartet referring to Mozart's Frühlingsquartett and Haydn's Reiterquartett. Double sharp (talk) 07:14, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Many thanks - It's perfectly possible: since he wrote it in December, it's bound to be spring, isn't it? Perhaps the first movement has gained it the title - the opening, if you think about it, does sound rather like an anticipation (pace the ghost of Charles Rosen) of Mendelssohn's "Fruhlingslied". Might they have had a common source?Delahays (talk) 15:17, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Sorry - I'm still bothered by this alleged nickname. I can't actually find anything that suggests it's in general use. I thought I would check with Wikipedia de, but for a while I simply got your Wikipedia article as the sole location and the only backing for that seems to be the Discogslink to a Telefunken issue - the print of which is too small online to find any suchh reference in the text - the nickname itself isn't used in the titling for the sleevenote, which so far is the only reproduction I can find. Eventually I came across a genuine German laguage listing for what is described as an "art film" by one Joseph Kindler called "Fruhlingsquartett" and based on this work. My bet is that this is a failed case of the Elvira Madigan syndrome. Unless this "art-film" has wide circulation anywhere, I suggest the alleged "nickname" be dropped forthwith. I hold to the suggestion, but I have now come across a Swedish note on the back of a Naxos compilation CD of music associated with Spring which includes the third movement of this quartet, which- in translation - asserts - as you do, that the nickname is established in Germany, but adds that it has failed to catch on anywhere else. So I can't blame Telefunken's marketing (and my own DG issue doesn't use the nickname anyway). If it's technically possible without causing an international cultural incident, I'd still suggest dropping the nickname EXCEPT for Wikipedia de. After all. neither Mozart nor his kin, nor Haydn (his dedicatee) use it. Delahays (talk) 13:56, 16 September 2022 (UTC)