Performance Today for Wednesday, July 17, 2013
When the publisher saw the music for Mozart's most recent 1785 string quartet, he thought "this can't be right!" The introduction seemed to be full of wrong notes. The publisher sent Mozart a note, asking if there was any chance that the composer had sent a rough draft instead of the final composition. "Nope," Mozart responded. "I meant to do that." Coming up on Performance Today, we'll hear Mozart's puzzling and progressive string quartet, nicknamed the Dissonance Quartet, in a performance by the Orion Quartet.