Symphony No. 30 in D Major, K. 202

Composer: MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Mozart completed this symphony in Salzburg on May 5, 1774. At the time, both he and his father Leopold were employed by the new Archbishop of Salzburg, Hieronymus von Colloredo.1
  • Citing this symphony’s use of trumpets, oboes and horns, Mozart’s biographer Stanley Sadie says this symphony is “close to the serenade tradition.”2 Brass and wind instruments were much-used in the serenade, a popular genre of private entertainment music, often played outdoors.3

Sources

  1. Cliff Eisen and Stanley Sadie, “Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 2, 2021,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278233. 
  2. Stanley Sadie, Mozart: The Early Years 1756-1781 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 339.
  3. Hubert Unverricht and Cliff Eisen, “Serenade,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 2, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000025454.

Cut IDs

41941