Southern String Quartet No. 14 in G Major, KV. 387 Spring Southern Music Series Standard

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The firstquestion is why transcribe a work such as Mozart’s String Quartet KV 387, which is so perfectly rendered in the original, for another instrumental ensemble?The only answer for wind players is to have the opportunity to play and learnfrom this great work directly. Mozartloved the wind instruments, but wrote for them rather differently than for thestrings. Of course, it is much easier for the strings to produce a seamless,blended sound. The winds, which all produce sound differently, will have towork hard for this, particularly in the first and third movements of KV387. Inthe second movement, with its strange sudden dynamic changes highlightingindividual voices, and in the fourth movement, with its brilliant contrapuntalwriting (a fourth movement of the Jupiter Symphony in miniature), the winds can contribute more color and individuality.