Symphony No. 1 (Mozart)
Template:Short description Template:Infobox musical composition The Symphony No. 1 in ETemplate:Music major, K. 16, is a symphony written in 1764 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of eight years.<ref name="B">Template:Cite book ISMN M-006-20466-3</ref> By this time, he was already notable in Europe as a wunderkind performer but had composed little music.
The autograph score (handwritten original) of the symphony is today preserved in the Biblioteka Jagiellońska in Kraków.<ref name="B" />
Background
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The symphony was written on the Mozart family's Grand Tour of Europe in London when they had to move to Chelsea during the summer of 1764 due to Mozart's father Leopold's throat infection.<ref name="B" /><ref name=sadie6465>Sadie, Stanley, Mozart: The Early Years 1756–1781, pp. 64–65, Oxford University (2006), Template:ISBN</ref> The house at 180 Ebury Street, now in the borough of Westminster, where this symphony was written, is marked with a plaque. The symphony was first performed on 21 February 1765. The work shows the influence of several composers, including his father and the sons of Johann Sebastian Bach, especially Johann Christian Bach, an important early symphonist working in London whom Mozart had met during his time there.
Movements and instrumentation
The symphony is scored for 2 oboes, 2 French horns in ETemplate:Music, and strings.
- <score sound="1">
\relative c { \set Staff.midiInstrument = #"string ensemble 1"
\key es \major
\tempo "Molto allegro" \set Score.tempoHideNote = ##t \tempo 2 = 164
es2\f g |
\repeat unfold 8 { bes8 } |
g4 es r2 |
bes1\p | as | as | g | g |
} </score>
The work is in 3 movements:
In the second movement, the eight-year-old Mozart makes use of the four note motif that appears in the finale of his Jupiter symphony, No. 41. The four notes, C, D, F, E, make an appearance in several of Mozart's works, including his Symphony No. 33.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This theme is stated by the horns in his first symphony.
In his book on the piano concertos, Cuthbert Girdlestone pointed out the similarity between the opening of this symphony and that of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 22, K. 482, composed some twenty years later.<ref>Girdlestone, C. M. (1948) Mozart’s Piano Concertos, p. 346, London, Cassell.</ref>
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