Symphony No. 30 (Mozart)

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote Symphony No. 30 in D major, K. 202/186b [1] in Salzburg, completing it on May 5, 1774.

The work is scored for two oboes, bassoon, two horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings, but the timpani part has been lost. [2] There has been at least one attempt to reconstruct the timpani part. [3]

Symphony No. 30 (Mozart)

The work is in 4 movements:

  1. Molto allegro, 3
    4
  2. Andantino con moto (A major), 2
    4
  3. Menuetto and Trio (the latter in G major), 3
    4
  4. Presto, 2
    4

The first movement is in sonata form and opens with a falling, dotted fanfare motif. [4] A transitional section follows which contains a dialogue between violins and bass alternating between loud and soft dynamics and ending with a trill. The second theme a group of the sonata-form structure contains two sections. The first is a ländler scored for two violins against bass while the second is a minuet for the tutti featuring trills on almost every beat. [4] The expositional coda returns to the ländler style. The development focuses on the minuet style with the phrase-lengths elongated. Following the recapitulation, the movement coda returns to this minuet and regularizes its phrase lengths before the final cadence. [4]

In the trio of the minuet, the first violin is syncopated an eighth-note ahead of the accompaniment. [4]

The finale starts with a falling dotted fanfare motif similar to the one that starts the opening movement. The answering phrase and the movement's second theme have a contradanse character. [4]

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References

  1. Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Franz Giegling, Alexander Weinmann & Gerd Sievers, Chronologisch–thematisches Verzeichnis sämtlicher Tonwerke Wolfgang Amadé Mozarts, 6th Edition. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel (1964): 203.
  2. Cliff Eisen, "Symphonies" The Mozart Conpendium, ed. H. C. Robbins Landon. London: Thames & Hudson (1990): p. 261
  3. Robert Dearling. The Music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Symphonies (Rutherford, Madison, Teaneck, Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1982), p. 203: "A reconstructed timpani part is provided in which the timpani plays in each of the movements except the slow movement."
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Brown, A. Peter, The Symphonic Repertoire (Volume 2). Indiana University Press ( ISBN   025333487X), pp. 379–381 (2002).