String Quartet No. 19 (Mozart)

String Quartet No. 19
String quartet by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Incipit of Mozart's String Quartet No. 19 in C major.
Mozart's manuscript of K. 465
KeyC major
CatalogueK. 465
GenreChamber music
Composed14 January 1785, Vienna
Performed12 February 1785
PublishedVienna: Artaria (1785)
Movements4
Scoring2 violins, viola, cello

The String Quartet No. 19 in C major, K. 465, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, nicknamed "Dissonance" on account of the unusual counterpoint in its slow introduction, is perhaps the most famous of his quartets.