Symphony No. 36 (Mozart)
Template:Listen The Symphony No. 36 in C major, K. 425, also known as the Linz Symphony, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during a stopover in the Austrian town of Linz on his and his wife's way back home to Vienna from Salzburg in late 1783.<ref name=autogenerated1>Template:Cite book ISMN M-006-20466-3</ref> The entire symphony was written in four days to accommodate the local count's, Johann Joseph Anton Thun, announcement, upon hearing of the Mozarts' arrival in Linz, of a concert. The première in Linz took place on 4 November 1783. The composition was also performed in Vienna on 1 April 1784.<ref name="autogenerated1"/> The autograph score of the "Linz Symphony" was not preserved, but a set of parts sold by Mozart to the Fürstenberg court at Donaueschingen in 1786 does survive.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Structure
The symphony is scored for 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings.
There are four movements:
Every movement except the minuet is in sonata form.
The first movement briefly quotes the famous Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah in the exposition.
The slow movement has a siciliano character and meter which was rare in Mozart's earlier symphonies (only used in one of the slow movements of the "Paris") but would appear frequently in later works such as No. 38 and No. 40.<ref>Brown, A. Peter, The Symphonic Repertoire, vol. 2. Indiana University Press (Template:ISBN), pp. 401–406 (2002).</ref>
<score> \relative c' {
\tempo "Adagio"
\time 3/4
c8\f[ r16. c32] e8[ r16. e32] a8[ r16. a32] |
b,8[ r16. d32] d4^\markup { \italic ten. } r8 r16. b,,32 |
bes8[ r16. <e' c'>32] q4^\markup { \italic ten. } r |
} </score>
Notes
Further reading
- Steinberg, Michael. The Symphony: A Listeners Guide. p. 153. Oxford University Press, 1995.
External links
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