(1996) Joseph Eybler: String Quintets nbr_cd:iTunes and the Quartet “Serioso”

and the Quartet “Serioso”

reflects the composer's impressions and feelings during his trip to Italy in 1830/31

the introductory tutti in the third movement of the A minor concerto

has its own particular background and story

most importantly

(1996) Joseph Eybler: String Quintets nbr_cd:iTunes and the Quartet “Serioso”Johann Georg Albrechtsberger stated that Josef Eybler was one of his best composition pupils and after Mozart, the greatest musical genius in Vienna. Mozart himself had deemed Eybler a painstaking composer, and a musician equally adroit in both chamber and sacred music and thought it only a pity that there are so few like him. Mozart entrusted Eybler with the task of coaching the singers for Cosi fan tutte, and the two men were close friends until