MOTUS QUARTET

Since its founding in 2022, the Motus Quartet has already received numerous awards. Its most recent success was winning first prize at the International JOSEPH JOACHIM Competition in spring 2025. The ensemble also won a special prize for the best interpretation of a work from the early classical period. It will begin its concert in Ludwigsburg with a piece from this era, galloping into Favorite Palace with Joseph Haydn’s »Reiterquartett« (Horseback Riding Quartet). It is the last of the six »Appónyi Quartets« composed by the pre-classical Haydn in Vienna in 1793. Vienna, around 30 years later: Ludwig van Beethoven completed his lyrical String Quartet Op. 127 in 1825, heralding the phase of his late quartets after a fourteen-year hiatus from the genre. Between the two classical string quartets, the Motus Quartet shifts location and era with an emotionally charged late work by Leoš Janáček. In the year of his death, he composed the heartfelt string quartet »Intimate Letters«, in which he transformed his feelings for and shared experiences with Kamila Stösslová into »the most beautiful melodies,« according to his own words.