QV 4: Quartets
The quartets were rediscovered in 2002 by Mary Oleskiewicz and had no QV-number. The quartets were added later and have the numbers QV 4: 8 – 13. The quartets are for three melody instruments (flute – violin – viola) and basso continuo. The quartets are obviously early works by Quantz, dating from his years in Dresden (1718–1741), most likely from sometime in the mid-1720s. The quartets are highly contrapuntal in style, quite unlike the more galant writing adopted by Quantz after his move to Berlin. Each work is in a differend tonality. The quartets were rediscovered in the archives of the Berlin Sing-Akademie.
For more information about the quartets and the rediscovery, see Mary Oleskiewicz’s article “Quantz’s quatours and Other Works Newly Discovered” in Early Music, volume 31, no. 3 (November 2003).
| Quantz Verzeichnis | Quartet | Comment, Quartet No. |
| QV 4: 8 | Quartet in D major | no. 1 |
| QV 4: 9 | Quartet in e minor | no. 2 |
| QV 4: 10 | Quartet in G major | no. 3 |
| QV 4: 11 | Quartet in g minor | no. 4 |
| QV 4: 12 | Quartet in C major | no. 5 |
| QV 4: 13 | Quartet in b minor | no. 6 |