B Chasan:

>I rate the Divertimento for Strings K 563 as one of the very greatest
>works ever written.  And it does not quite get the number of performances
>it deserves.  Am I completely off base on this?

It's hard to know how far your enthusiasm for this piece goes, but it's
certainly one of the greatest chamber works Mozart wrote (IMHO); so I'd
say you're not off base.  OTOH, if you think it ranks with, say, the late
Beethoven quartets, then I'd say you are off, way off.

Ulvi
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