The Emerson String Quartet Gives Mozart Classics New Life

Over the last three decades, The Emerson String Quartet has garnered nine Grammy Awards for their achievements in Classic music. Their latest piece pays homage to familiar Mozart compositions and can be heard live in New York and London in the coming months. For those who aren’t all that familiar with classical music, other than the time their middle school teacher played it in class, the long titles may be confusing. I say this, because I happen to fall into that category, and wanted to learn some of these new words. The words I’m referring to dictate the tempo of the song, such as allegro, which means to play quickly. Allegretto on the other hand, let’s the performer know they should play the song quickly and quietly. The album opens quickly, before settling into a more moderate tempo (andante). Each of Mozart’s Prussian quartets begins and finishes at an aggressive rate, with spots of menuetto and larghetto (slow tempo) in between.

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