Symphony No. 36 (Mozart)

All you want to know about Symphony No. 36 (Mozart)

The Symphony No. 36 in C major, KV 425, (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.^[1] The entire symphony was written in four days to accommodate the local count's 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 premièred in Vienna short while later, on 1 April, 1784.^[1] The autograph score of the "Linz Symphony" is not preserved.

1 Structure
2 Notes
3 References
4 External links

Structure

The symphony is laid out in classical form:

Adagio—Allegro spiritoso
Andante
Menuetto
Finale (Presto)

The first and last movements are in sonata form.

The next symphony by Mozart is Symphony No. 38. The work known as "Symphony No. 37" is mostly by Michael Haydn.

Notes

^ ^a ^b Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Giglberger, Veronika (preface), Robinson, J. Branford (transl.) (2005). Die Sinfonien IV.. Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag, p. XVII. ISMN M-006-20466-3

References

Background to the 36th symphony from Notes to a January 2006 performance at the Kennedy Center.
Steinberg, Michael. "The Symphony: a listeners guide". page 153. Oxford University Press, 1995.

External links

Sinfonie in C KV 425: Score and critical report (German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
Symphony No. 36: Free scores at the International Music Score Library Project.

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Symphonies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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^a #2 now attributed to Leopold Mozart. ^b #3 now attributed to Carl Friedrich Abel. ^c #37 now attributed to Michael Haydn.