txtCommentary1=As a private category of music, the {\uldb string quartet}{\v 154839} provided an intimate environment for composers that was ideally suited to experimentation\'97much more so than the many varieties of public music, such as symphony, concerto, or {\uldb opera}{\v 133191}. In his string quartets Mozart was writing for a select group of peer musicians rather than for an audience governed by popular taste. The composer
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txtCommentary2=\par\par\par\par\par of quartets ran a smaller risk of alienating the audience, since for the most part that audience was restricted to the performers themselves. In quartets such as the {\uldb \'93Dissonant\'94}{\v 210983}, we hear Mozart at his most personal and individual\'97confiding, as it were, to us.{\fs24\uldb \'80}{\v next}
