Mozart clarinet quintet K. 581 in A major [2/4]

Clarinet: Richard Stoltzman String Quartet: The Tokyo String Quartet Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, K. 581, was written in 1789 for the clarinetist Anton Stadler. A clarinet quintet is a work for one clarinet and a string quartet (two violins, a viola and a cello). Although originally written for basset clarinet, it is almost always played on a clarinet in A or B-flat. It was Mozart’s only completed clarinet quintet, and is one of the earliest and best-known works written especi