Prelude & Fugue for string trio, K404a No. 6 in F minor (Mozart)
Movements
i Adagio (Mozart), ii Fugue (Bach)
Notes
Mozart was studying the works of Bach and other old masters around 1782, which greatly influenced his compositions. The “Prelude & Fugue for string trio, K404a No. 6 in F minor” is one of six by Mozart They are arrangements of fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach and his son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, with some of the preludes composed by Mozart himself. The Fugue in No. 6 is an arrangement of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach’s Fugue F.31 No. 8, and the Prelude is likely Mozart’s own composition. Studying these older masters helped Mozart to deepen his understanding of counterpoint and inspired his later compositions, including the string trio Divertimento, K. 563.
