Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551

Composer: MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Mozart wrote his last three symphonies (K. 543, 550 and 551) in the summer of 1788.1
  • Mozart completed this symphony on August 10, 1788 in Vienna.2 We don’t know whether it was performed during Mozart’s life or not.3 Mozart’s biographer Maynard Solomon suggests that Mozart may have written his last three symphonies for a proposed trip to London (which never occurred).4
  • The person who came up with the nickname “Jupiter” was probably Johann Peter Salomon,5 the impresario who arranged the concerts at which Haydn’s “London” symphonies were first heard. 

Sources

  1. Cliff Eisen, and Stanley Sadie, “Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed March 24, 2021,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278233.
  2. Cliff Eisen, and Stanley Sadie, “Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed March 24, 2021,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278233.
  3. Betsy Schwarm, “Jupiter Symphony,” Encyclopaedia Brittanica (April 11, 2013), accessed March 24, 2021, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Jupiter-Symphony. 
  4. Maynard Solomon, Mozart: A Life (New York: Harper Collins, 1995), 426.
  5. Betsy Schwarm, “Jupiter Symphony,” Encyclopaedia Brittanica (April 11, 2013), accessed March 24, 2021, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Jupiter-Symphony. 

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