String Quartet No. 22 (Mozart)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his String Quartet No. 22 in B-flat major, K. 589 after a visit to the court of King Friedrich Wilhelm II, King of Prussia. Mozart traveled with his friend and piano student Prince Carl Lichnowsky, and during these travels they had the opportunity to stop in Potsdam and hold an audience for Mozart at the King's court.^[1] Mozart was under financial stress and hoped to hold a position at the court of King Wilhelm II.^[2] Wilhelm was an amateur cellist, which is why the set of Prussian Quartets, of which the String Quartet No. 22 is a part, features an unusually prominent role for the cello. Despite such compositional efforts by Mozart to gain employment from the king, these quartets were sold without any dedication and published by Artaria.^[2]

^ Schmidt, Matthias (2006). "Berlin: Prussian Quartets-Classical Canon". Österreichische Musikzeitschrift. 61: 91–96 – via RILM.
^ ^a ^b Keefe, Simon P. (2017). Mozart in Vienna : the final decade. Cambridge, United Kingdom. ISBN 978-1-107-11671-9. OCLC 989519991.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[1] Schmidt, Matthias (2006). "Berlin: Prussian Quartets-Classical Canon". Österreichische Musikzeitschrift. 61: 91–96 – via RILM.

[:03-2] Keefe, Simon P. (2017). Mozart in Vienna : the final decade. Cambridge, United Kingdom. ISBN 978-1-107-11671-9. OCLC 989519991.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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