List of Mozart's symphonies

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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
01 016 016 E flat major 1764 or 1765
Without App. 220 016a A minor 1765? probably not from Mozart
02 017th 017th B flat major 1765 by Leopold Mozart ?
03 018th 018th E flat major 1765 by Carl Friedrich Abel
04th 019th 019th D major 1765 beginning
Without App. 223 019a F major 1765 beginning
Without Appendix 222 019b C major 1765 beginning only known incipit from a Breitkopf & Härtel catalog , authenticity doubtful
05 022nd 022nd B flat major  Dec 1765 “Hague” symphony
Without App. 221 045a G major 1766 "Old Lambacher" Symphony ("Neue Lambacher" by Leopold Mozart )
[43] 076 042a F major 1767? Doubtful authenticity
06th 043 043 F major 1767 end
07th 045 045 D major 1767/68 winter Variant as an overture to La finta semplice
[55] Appendix 214 045b B flat major  Jan. 1768? Doubtful authenticity
08th 048 048 D major Dec 13, 1768
Without Appendix 215 066c D major 1769? only known incipit, authenticity doubtful
Without App. 217 066d B flat major 1769? only known incipit, authenticity doubtful
Without App. 218 066e B flat major 1769? only known incipit, authenticity doubtful
09 073 073 C major 1772?
[44] 081 073l D major 1770 spring possibly by Leopold Mozart
[47] 097 073m D major 1770? Doubtful authenticity
[45] 095 073n D major 1770? Doubtful authenticity
10 074 074 G major 1770 presumed to be the original overture to Mitridate
11 084 073q 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] 075 075 F major 1771? Doubtful authenticity
12 110 075b G major  July 1771
[46] 096 111b C major 1771? Doubtful authenticity
[48] 098 Appendix C 04/11 F major 1771? probably not from Mozart
13 112 112 F major 0Nov 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 0Oct 3, 1773
25th 183 173dB G minor 0Oct 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 0Apr 6, 1774
30th 202 186b D major 0May 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 0July 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 0Dec 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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. ^ Neal Zaslaw: Mozart's Symphonies. Context, performance practice, reception. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1989.

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