"Not only the connoisseur, but also the expert is always puzzled by how nothing other than a second viola can open up a new world of chamber music for strings," was musicologist Martin Geck's verdict on Mozart's string quintets. When the 17-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus wrote the first of these works (K 174) in his native Salzburg in December 1773, it immediately crowned his early chamber music oeuvre. With the C major Quintet K 515, composed 14 years later, he put down on paper by far his longest instrumental piece in four movements. It is a light work that simultaneously looks back to the "Figaro" and forward to the "Jupiter" symphony.

Notenschlüssel: Concert introduction with Marcus Imbsweiler at 14:30 in the Auditorium of the Old University
(made possible by the Heidelberger Frühling Freundeskreis e.V.)

Can also be booked as a pass (includes all three concerts).