List of Mozart's symphonies
Although the last symphony by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - following the traditional numbering of the Old Mozart Edition - bears the number 41, there are actually around 60 symphonies from his hand, some of which, however, have not been preserved or only in fragments .
Different ways of counting are not only due to the fact that the manuscripts of some youthful works have been found again in recent decades. Rather, there is also the problem of delimiting it from other types of work, because the symphony was not yet a uniform genre in Mozart's creative period; rather, it only developed into it through Mozart's work and that of his contemporaries. For a long time, opera overtures were still referred to as "sinfonia" (especially in Italy), while symphonies, conversely, were called "overtures" , so that the distinction often remains vague. Mozart himself, for example, supplemented the two-movement overtures to the operas Ascanio in Alba , Il sogno di Scipione , La finta giardiniera and Il re pastore by adding his own closing movements (KV 120, KV 163, KV 121 and KV 102) to three-movement symphonies, the could be performed separately at concerts, while z. For example, the overtures to Mitridate, re di Ponto and Lucio Silla are designed as an Italian opera symphony in three movements from the outset. A typical overture-like character with sentences merging into one another can be found e.g. E.g. in the symphonies KV 74, KV 181 and KV 318. In some serenades (KV 204, KV 250, KV 320, KV 385) it was the other way round: Mozart formed symphonies by shortening them to four movements.
The following table lists the works of Mozart that are usually considered symphonies. The numbering in the column Köchelverzeichnis (KV) first names the commonly used number. The numbering in column KV 6 is that of the 6th KV edition. So it corresponds to the more recent chronology.
List of symphonies
No. | KV | KV 6 | key | Time of origin | Nicknames, comments, authenticity |
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1 | 16 | 16 | E flat major | 1764 or 1765 | |
Without | App. 220 | 16a | A minor | 1765? | probably not from Mozart |
2 | 17th | 17th | B flat major | 1765 | by Leopold Mozart ? |
3 | 18th | 18th | E flat major | 1765 | by Carl Friedrich Abel |
4th | 19th | 19th | D major | 1765 beginning | |
Without | App. 223 | 19a | F major | 1765 beginning | |
Without | Appendix 222 | 19b | C major | 1765 beginning | only known incipit from a Breitkopf & Härtel catalog , authenticity doubtful |
5 | 22nd | 22nd | B flat major | Dec 1765 | “Hague” symphony |
Without | App. 221 | 45a | G major | 1766 | "Old Lambacher" Symphony ("Neue Lambacher" by Leopold Mozart ) |
[43] | 76 | 42a | F major | 1767? | Doubtful authenticity |
6th | 43 | 43 | F major | 1767 end | |
7th | 45 | 45 | D major | 1767/68 winter | Variant as an overture to La finta semplice |
[55] | Appendix 214 | 45b | B flat major | Jan. 1768? | Doubtful authenticity |
8th | 48 | 48 | D major | Dec 13, 1768 | |
Without | Appendix 215 | 66c | D major | 1769? | only known incipit, authenticity doubtful |
Without | App. 217 | 66d | B flat major | 1769? | only known incipit, authenticity doubtful |
Without | App. 218 | 66e | B flat major | 1769? | only known incipit, authenticity doubtful |
9 | 73 | 73 | C major | 1772? | |
[44] | 81 | 73l | D major | 1770 spring | possibly by Leopold Mozart |
[47] | 97 | 73m | D major | 1770? | Doubtful authenticity |
[45] | 95 | 73n | D major | 1770? | Doubtful authenticity |
10 | 74 | 74 | G major | 1770 | presumed to be the original overture to Mitridate |
11 | 84 | 73q | D major | 1770 | Doubtful authenticity |
[54] | App. 216 | Appendix C 11.03 | B flat major | 1771 early summer? | Doubtful authenticity, in the 3rd edition of Köchelverzeichnis (1937): KV 74g |
[42] | 75 | 75 | F major | 1771? | Doubtful authenticity |
12 | 110 | 75b | G major | July 1771 | |
[46] | 96 | 111b | C major | 1771? | Doubtful authenticity |
[48] | 98 | Appendix C 04/11 | F major | 1771? | probably not from Mozart |
13 | 112 | 112 | F major | Nov 2, 1771 | |
14th | 114 | 114 | A major | Dec 30, 1771 | |
15th | 124 | 124 | G major | Jan. 21, 1772 | |
16 | 128 | 128 | C major | May 1772 | |
17th | 129 | 129 | G major | May 1772 | |
18th | 130 | 130 | F major | May 1772 | |
19th | 132 | 132 | E flat major | July 1772 | |
20th | 133 | 133 | D major | July 1772 | |
21st | 134 | 134 | A major | Aug 1772 | |
without | 135 u. 61h | D major | Overture to Lucio Silla extended to a four-movement symphony with the Minuet KV 61h No. 3 (contemporary authenticity of the compilation doubtful) | ||
[50] | 161 and 163 | 141a | D major | 1772? The End | Overture to Il sogno di Scipione (KV 126) with a post-composed finale KV 163 |
22nd | 162 | 162 | C major | Apr. 1773 | |
23 | 181 | 162b | D major | May 19, 1773 | |
24 | 182 | 173dA | B flat major | Oct 3, 1773 | |
25th | 183 | 173dB | G minor | Oct 5, 1773 | “Little” G minor symphony |
26th | 184 | 161a | E flat major | 30th Mar 1773 | |
27 | 199 | 161b | G major | Apr 10, 1773 | |
28 | 200 | 189k | C major | Nov 17, 1774 | |
29 | 201 | 186a | A major | Apr 6, 1774 | |
30th | 202 | 186b | D major | May 5, 1774 | |
without | 204 | D major | Serenade Symphony (obtained by omitting movements 3 to 5); KV3a: 213a | ||
without | 250 | D major | Serenade Symphony (gained by omitting movements 2 to 4 (or 5)); KV3a: 248b | ||
31 | 297 | 300a | D major | June 1778 | “Paris” symphony |
32 | 318 | 318 | G major | Apr 26, 1779 | as an overture to Zaide and Thamos, presumed king in Egypt , often used at the time as an overture to La villanella rapita . |
33 | 319 | 319 | B flat major | July 9, 1779 | |
without | 320 | D major | Serenade Symphony (gained by omitting movements 2 to 4 and 6) | ||
34 | 338 | 338 | C major | 29 Aug 1780 | |
35 | 385 | 385 | D major | July 1782 | "Haffner" symphony |
36 | 425 | 425 | C major | Nov. 1783 | "Linz" Symphony |
37 | 444 | 425a | G major | Nov. 1783? | Introduction to a symphony by Michael Haydn |
38 | 504 | 504 | D major | Dec 6, 1786 | “Prague” symphony |
39 | 543 | 543 | E flat major | June 1788 | "Swan Song" Symphony |
40 | 550 | 550 | G minor | July 1788 | “Great” G minor symphony; In the second version Mozart added a clarinet part and changed the oboe parts |
41 | 551 | 551 | C major | Aug 1788 | "Jupiter" symphony |
Remarks
- ↑ Since the overture to Il sogno di Scipione, together with its final movement, has its own KV numbers (KV 161 and KV 163) and since the work is sometimes dealt with in symphony reviews / recordings, it is also taken into account here accordingly; for more recent complete recordings, such as B. the one with the English Concert , however, the work is not taken into account.
- ↑ The Old Mozart Edition (published 1879–1882) contains 41 symphonies numbered 1 to 41. Further works were published in supplementary volumes by Breitkopf & Härtel until 1910 . The symphonies it contains are sometimes labeled with the numbers 42 to 55 (e.g. KV 75 has the number 42), even if they are earlier works than Mozart's last symphony KV 551 from 1788, the one based on the Old Mozart Edition carries the number 41.
- ^ Neal Zaslaw: Mozart's Symphonies. Context, performance practice, reception. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1989.
literature
- Ludwig von Köchel : Chronological-thematic directory of all of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart's music works . 8th edition. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-7651-0019-6
- Wulf Konold (Ed.): Konzertführer Klassik. 4th edition. Atlantis, Zurich 2005 (1987), ISBN 3-254-08224-9 .
- Silke Leopold (Ed.): Mozart Handbook. Metzler, Stuttgart and Bärenreiter, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-476-02077-0 .
- A. Peter Brown: The Symphonic Repertoire. Volume II. The First Golden Age of the Vienese Symphony: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert. Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis 2002, ISBN 0-253-33487-X ; 716 pp.
- International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg (Ed.): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - New edition of all works ; here: Series IV, group of works 11, vols. 1–10; 1956 to 1985 (vols. 46–55 of the entire series)