This string quartet reproduces the dramatic relations between Leopold
Mozart, living in Salzburg, and his son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in 1778
living in Paris, through excerpts from their correspondence. The instruments
of the string quartet are sounded as if they were "conducting conversations".
The emotional tension of the writing and reading of the letters, the words,
the thoughts, the ulterior motives, the lurking doubts are all dramatized.
The appended text will aid the listener in understanding and following
more easily and precisely the quickly developing and complexly unfolding
events.
Auf der Grundlage ihres Briefwechsels aus dem burbulenten Jahr 1778 schrieb
Eötvös drei Quartettszenen mit dem Titel Korrespondenz,
bei denen er der Bratsche die Rolle Wolfgangs zuweist, dem Cello die des
Vaters Leopeld. Die beiden Geigen wachen wie zwei Schutzgeister oder Beobachter
über das familiäre Hin und Her. Kornelia Bittmann (WDR Köln, 2002)
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