String Quartet No. 14 (Mozart)

In the composer's inscription on the title page of the autograph score is stated: li 31 di decembre 1782 in vienna.

It is a long minuet, written in the tonic key of G major, with its chromatic fourths set apart by note-to-note dynamics changes.

The minuet is followed by a slow movement in the subdominant C major, whose theme explores remote key areas.

23 in which the finale is also a fugato based on a theme of four whole notes,[2] which Mozart copied out the first few bars of and was mistakenly entered into Köchel's original catalogue as K. 291.

Mozart uses an identical 5-note motif in the opening bar of his second duo for violin and viola, K. 424, also associated with Michael Haydn.