txtCommentary=In this 1770 painting of a {\uldb quartet,}{\v 154839} the first and second {\uldb violinists,}{\v 105626} and the {\uldb violist}{\v 105422} and {\uldb cellist}{\v 76489} face one another. Where is the \'93front\'94? This was not an issue before about 1825 because there was no audience in our modern sense. A few of {\uldb Haydn\'92s}{\v 132423} quartets were performed in public in the 1790s in London, but public quartet concerts became frequent only during the 1840s. Mozart would have
txtCommentary1=been astonished at the idea of performing one of his string quartets in public. In his time, the string quartet was the province of the musical connoisseur. {\fs24\uldb\'80}{\v next}
