Description
The Oboe Quartet in F major, K. 370/368b, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in early 1781. The quartet, originally arranged for oboe, violin, viola and cello is presented in this edition for Oboe with Piano accompaniment.
In 1780, Mozart was invited to Munich to visit Elector Karl Theodor, who had commissioned the opera Idomeneo for a carnival celebration. While in Munich, Mozart renewed an acquaintance with Friedrich Ramm, avirtuoso oboist in the Munich orchestra. It was for Ramm that Mozart composed the quartet in order to show off his virtuosity and the improvements that had been made to the oboe at that time. One way that this piece showed off the instrument was the use of the ''high F'' above the staff, a note rarely played in any repertoire previously written for the oboe.
This piece is a work of chamber music, but it has elements that harken to other musicalgenres, and requires a fair amount of virtuosity. Because of its large amount of virtu
