txtCommentary1=(This usually means the date that Mozart begins to write down the finished version of a work, not the date that he completed it.) In Mozart\'92s own handwritten catalogue of his works, the C-{\uldb major}{\v 86320} {\uldb Quartet}{\v 154839}, {\uldb K.}{\v 137211} 465\'97the last of the group\'97is dated January 14, 1785. Hence Mozart was perhaps actively at work on the set for a little more than two years\'97though this may not include the entire period of \'93study\'94 to which
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txtCommentary2=\par\par he refers. In the last few years the researches of the indefatigable scholar Alan Tyson have clarified the chronology of the {\uldb \'93Haydn\'94 Quartets}{\v 136342}. Using characteristics of the paper (especially its watermarks and the manner in which {\uldb staves}{\v 97309} are drawn), Tyson has identified two distinct spurts that produced three {\uldb quartets}{\v 154839} each.{\fs24\uldb \'80}{\v next}