- This piece premiered in Salzburg in January 1776. Mozart was 20.1
- Mozart composed this work for a celebration of the name day of Countess Maria Antonia Lodron, one of Salzburg’s leading citizens and hostess of the city’s finest musical salon.2
- This serenade is sometimes listed as a “divertimento” (the terms “serenade” and “divertimento” are similar in meaning).
- This work is scored for strings and two horns, an ensemble that was popular in Salzburg in the 1770s.3 This is one of several works for this instrumentation that Mozart composed between June 1776 and June 1777.4
Sources
- 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.
- Maynard Solomon, Mozart: A Life (New York: Harper Collins, 1995), 104.
- Eisen and Sadie, “Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus,” Grove Music Online.
- Solomon, Mozart: A Life, 102.
Cut IDs
43843