According to the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, the finale was printed, and known for some time, in an inauthentic edition, in which its main theme, originally a descending chromatic scale fragment, was replaced in most of its appearances in the movement by a more complicated zigzag ("Zickzackform") themelet.

Date of composition 1790
First published 1793 (May) - Vienna: Artaria
Type String Quintet
Tonality D Major
Catalogue KV 593
Instruments Cello
2x Violin
2x Viola
Links
Autotranslations beta Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintette à cordes n°5 en ré majeur, KV 593
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintetto d'archi n. 5 in re maggiore, KV 593
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Streichquintett Nr. 5 D-dur, KV 593