Haydn Quartets (Mozart)

The "Haydn" Quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are a set of six string quartets published in 1785 in Vienna as his Op. 10, dedicated to the composer Joseph Haydn, who is often referred to as the "father of the string quartet". Haydn had recently completed his influential Op. 33 String Quartets set in 1781, the year that Mozart arrived in Vienna. They contain some of Mozart's most memorable melodic writing and refined compositional thought.