- Mozart composed this symphony in Salzburg. It was completed on April 6, 1774.
- Mozart had returned from his third trip to Italy in March of 1773. Italian musical influences remained in many of his works in 1774, including this one: listen for lyrical Italian melodic style, combined with the contrapuntal techniques so popular in the German tradition.
- Particularly, listen for some terribly virtuosic imitative contrapuntal writing in the coda to the first movement.1
Sources
- Cliff Eisen, and Stanley Sadie, “Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed July 16, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278233.
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