Performance

Quintet in B-flat major

1 upcoming performance in New York

Mozart’s *Quintet in B-flat major* is a late-18th-century chamber work written for string quintet, expanding the quartet’s frame with an added viola and a thicker, more conversational middle register. At Bargemusic in New York City, it appears alongside the darker *Quintet in G minor*, a pairing that places clarity and tension in direct relief within the same format. The piece matters for how it treats ensemble writing as dialogue rather than display, with harmony doing as much narrative work as melody. Specific New York City premiere history is not firmly documented.