Symphony No. 36 (Mozart)

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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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