Symphony No. 2 (Mozart)

Detail of Carmontelle's Mozart family watercolour

The piece of music once known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 2 in [[B-flat major|BTemplate:Music major]], K. 17, is now considered to be not by him, but by possibly his father, Leopold Mozart.<ref>For the attribution to Leopold Mozart, see Stanley Sadie, The New Grove Mozart (New York: Norton, 1983), p. 197 (Mozart work list). Template:ISBN.</ref> This symphony has been given the number Anhang C 11.02 in the sixth edition of Ludwig Ritter von Köchel's catalogue of Mozart's music,<ref>Sadie, p. 197.</ref> and is now also catalogued as Eisen [[B-flat major|BTemplate:Music]] 6 (LMV VII:B6) in Cliff Eisen's catalogue of Leopold Mozart's symphonies. It was written for 2 oboes, 2 horns in BTemplate:Music, and a string section.

<score sound="1">

\relative c {

 \key bes \major
 \tempo "Allegro"
 \partial 4 f8.\f f16 bes4 d,8. d16 f4 f,8. f16 bes4 d8. f16 \times 2/3 {f,8-. f (g} \times 2/3 {as g f)} g4

} </score>

The symphony is in four movements in the usual quick–slow–minuet–quick pattern:

1. Allegro
2. (Andante)<ref>The parentheses are around the tempo designation "Andante" in the score of the symphony.</ref> in E-flat major
3. Menuetto I & II
4. Presto

The publication of this symphony in the Alte Mozart-Ausgabe, the first collected edition of Mozart's music, shows several points at which smaller, editorially-supplied notes are given, suggesting an unfinished composition. For instance, in "Menuetto I", only the first violin and cello/double bass parts are completed; the second violin and viola parts in their entirety in this movement are editorial additions.<ref>See the score linked below.</ref>

Since K. 17 is now believed not to be by W. A. Mozart, the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe does not include this symphony as part of its edition.

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