The String Quartet No. 8 in F major, K. 168, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in August 1773, in Vienna, during his first years of stay in this city. It is the first of a series of six quartets, known as Viennese quartets.
StructureConsists of four movements:
The slow movement in F minor is a canon in ternary compass on the familiar theme already used in the same key in the last movement of the String Quartet op. 20 No. 5 by Joseph Haydn. The finale is a fugue, which also resembles one of the end of the Op. 20, this time the quartet in the major. Notes Bibliography
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