to add an item to your Itinerary basket.
Divertimento String Quartet
North Hill
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 8ER
Opening Times
Sorry, this event has passed
Prices
Saturday 22nd February
7.30pm
Tickets £13 in advance, £15 on the door, Under 25's free
from Divertimento 01803 863677
enquiries@divertimento.uk.com
About us
Divertimento String Quartet concert
Mozart - String Quartet in D minor, K 421
Webern - 6 Bagatelles, op 9
Beethoven - String Quartet in F, Op 59 no 1
Divertimento String Quartet's programme begins with Mozart's Quartet in D, K 421 which is one of his most celebrated quartets. An amusing anecdote from Mozart's wife, Constanza, recounts that Wolfgang was composing the quartet whilst she was giving birth in the next room and attributed the rising figures in the second movement to her cries of pain.
Anton Webern's 6 Bagatelles are extremely short and concise, lasting only 4 minutes in total. Webern said they are "not much in quantity, but much in content".
In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven, Divertimento String Quartet finish the concert with a performance of his String Quartet in F, Op 59 No 1. At the request of the Russian Ambassador to Vienna who commissioned this work, Beethoven used a Russian folk song in the last movement.
Saturday 22nd February
7.30pm
Tickets £13 in advance, £15 on the door, Under 18's free
from Divertimento 01803 863677
enquiries@divertimento.uk.com
Sherwell United Church, North Hill, Plymouth, Devon PL4 8ER
