Symphony No. 36 (Mozart)

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Symphony No. 36
I. Adagio – Allegro spiritoso
II. Andante con moto
III. Menuetto
IV. Presto
Performed by the Tsumugi Orchestra conducted by Takashi Inoue (2013)
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The Symphony No. 36 in C major, K. 425, also known as the Linz Symphony, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during a stopover in the Austrian town of Linz on his and his wife's way back home to Vienna from Salzburg in late 1783. [1] The entire symphony was written in four days to accommodate the local count's, Johann Joseph Anton Thun, announcement, upon hearing of the Mozarts' arrival in Linz, of a concert. The première in Linz took place on 4 November 1783. The composition was also performed in Vienna on 1 April 1784. [1] The autograph score of the "Linz Symphony" was not preserved, but a set of parts sold by Mozart to the Fürstenberg court at Donaueschingen in 1786 does survive. [2]

Contents

Structure

The symphony is scored for 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings.

There are four movements:

  1. Adagio, 3
    4     – Allegro spiritoso, 4
    4
  2. Andante in F major, 6
    8
  3. Menuetto – Trio, 3
    4
  4. Presto, 2
    4

Every movement except the minuet is in sonata form.

The first movement briefly quotes the famous Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah in the exposition.

The slow movement has a siciliano character and meter which was rare in Mozart's earlier symphonies (only used in one of the slow movements of the "Paris") but would appear frequently in later works such as No. 38 and No. 40. [3]

Symphony No. 36 (Mozart)

Notes

  1. 1 2 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (2005). Die Sinfonien IV. Translated by Robinson, J. Branford. Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag. p. XVII. ISMN M-006-20466-3
  2. ↑ Eisen, Cliff (1988). "New Light on Mozart's 'Linz' Symphony, K. 425". Journal of the Royal Musical Association . 113 (1): 81–96. doi:10.1093/jrma/113.1.81. JSTOR   766270.
  3. ↑ Brown, A. Peter, The Symphonic Repertoire, vol. 2. Indiana University Press ( ISBN   025333487X), pp. 401–406 (2002).

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