The Fine Arts Quartet 80th Anniversary Series – Complete Mozart String Quintets & Beethoven Early Quartets
May 17 | 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Date & Time
Sunday, May 17, 2026 (3–4:30 p.m.)
Pre-talk (2 p.m.)
The quartet will perform an ambitious FREE series in May of twelve masterworks over six concerts, opening with: Beethoven String Quartet No. 5 in A Major — Beethoven wrote this as a conscious love letter to Mozart, studying and modeling a specific Mozart quartet so carefully that this is the most intimate and refined music in the set — elegant, shimmering, and at times almost fragile. AND Mozart String Quintet in C Major, K. 515 (1787) — The grandest of the six, opening with the longest chamber music movement Mozart ever wrote. Settle in and let its radiant confidence and symphonic scale carry you.
Program
Guest Violist, Hartmut Rohde
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – String Quartet in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) – String Quintet in C Major, KV 515
Celebrating 80 Years – Full Festival Lineup
Pre-talks begin one hour prior to each program (except May 19)
Sunday, May 17 at 3:00 PM – Guest Violist, Hartmut Rohde
UWM Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – String Quartet in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) – String Quintet in C Major, KV 515
Tuesday, May 19 at 7:30 PM – Guest Violist, Hartmut Rohde
Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, 914 E. Knapp St.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18, No. 4
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) – String Quintet in B-Flat Major, KV 174
Thursday, May 21 at 7:30 PM – Guest Violist, Hartmut Rohde
UWM Recital Hall (near Arts Center Lecture Hall), 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – String Quartet in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) – String Quintet in D Major, KV 593
Tuesday, May 26 at 7:30 PM – Guest Violist, Razvan Popovici
UWM Recital Hall (near Arts Center Lecture Hall), 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 18, No. 6
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) – String Quintet in E-Flat Major, KV 614
Thursday, May 28 at 7:30 PM – Guest Violist, Razvan Popovici
UWM Recital Hall (near Arts Center Lecture Hall), 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – String Quartet in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) – String Quintet in C Minor, KV 406
Sunday, May 31 at 3:00 PM – Guest Violist, Razvan Popovici
UWM Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) – String Quintet in G Minor, KV 516