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Mozart's Quintet for Horn and Strings (violin, two violas, and cello), K. 407, was composed in Vienna in late 1782. Notably, the horn part is highly virtuosic, featuring wide leaps between low and high registers and phrases played at a very fast tempo.
This Quintet is dedicated to the Viennese horn player Joseph Leutgeb (1732–1811), a virtuoso for whom Mozart composed three Horn Concertos (K. 417, K. 495, K. 412). It is performed here using a historical natural horn built by Antoine Courtois (Pa