ABSTRACT
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, while paying homage to Haydn further developed the expression of both symphonic writing and string quartet. After completing the paper towel roll exercises, pick up instruments and pencils and air bow the following variation of Lesson 6’s string crossing exercise. The string quartet and symphony become some of the most substantial expressions for string writing for the three representatives of the Viennese Classicism: Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. In less than a century the dependence of amateur musicians to bolster string sections, a practice that served late Baroque composers as Bach fairly well, had become unsustainable. Following Beethoven’s exceptional treatment of orchestra, Romanticism further expand the size and involvement of each section of the violin family for the rest of the 19th century and with Richard Wagner’s, Gustav Mahler’s, and Anton Bruckner’s significant influences has reached its height.
