Symphony No. 18 (Mozart)

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Structure

The symphony is scored for two flutes, two horns in C and two horns in F for the first, third and fourth movements, in F and B-flat for the second, and strings. There are no oboes in this symphony; Mozart used flutes instead for the first time. Mozart also used a second pair of horns throughout this work, which is a rarity in his oeuvre. [1] In this symphony and the others he wrote around this time he writes for combinations of wind instruments that would not have been available to him – the official list of instrumentalists in the court orchestra included only two/three horns and no flutes. In the case of this symphony, Mozart may have been relying on the common practice where wind players could play several instruments, for example the oboists of the orchestra having flutes as a seond instrument. [2]

Symphony No. 18 (Mozart)

There are four movements:

  1. Allegro, 4
    4
  2. Andantino grazioso, 3
    8     in B-flat major
  3. Menuetto – Trio, 3
    4
  4. Molto allegro, 4
    4

References

  1. 1 2 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (2005). Die Sinfonien III. Translated by J. Branford Robinson. Kassel: Bärenreiter. p. X. ISMN M-006-20466-3
  2. ↑ Keefe, Simon P (2008). "The Symphonies". In Eisen, Cliff (ed.). The Cambridge Mozart encyclopedia (Repr ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. p. 499. ISBN   978-0-521-85659-1.
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