Symphony No. 32 in G Major, K. 318

Composer: MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • This symphony premiered in Salzburg on April 26, 1779.
  • Mozart composed this symphony after returning from a trip to Paris, where he had tried (unsuccessfully) to gain enough work to permanently quit working for the Archbishop Colloredo, his father’s employer.1
  • Archbishop wasn’t a fan of Mozart’s extracurricular composing, including this work (click here for more on that debacle)2
  • This symphony’s similarity to Mozart’s Italian style (fast-slow-fast) opera overtures have led some scholars to speculate that this symphony was originally intended to be an opera overture.3

Sources

  1. Liner notes to Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 25, 32 and 41, Capella Istropolitana, Barry Wordsworth, Naxos 8.550113, CD, 1988, https://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.550113&catNum=550113&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English
  2.  Cliff Eisen, and Stanley Sadie, “Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 19, 2019,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278233. 
  3. Liner notes to Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 25, 32 and 41

Cut IDs

43284