Symphony No. 4 (Mozart)

The Symphony No. 4 in D major, K. 19, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in London during the Mozart family's Grand Tour of Europe in 1765, when Mozart was nine years old.^[1]

Background

Even though the original of Mozart's manuscript has not survived, the set of parts written in the hand of his father, Leopold Mozart, is preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich.^[1] It is known today that the early symphonies by young Mozart were performed at the public concerts in the Little Haymarket Theatre in London. It is therefore possible that these parts were written for one of these public performances,^[1] although Zaslaw concludes that the work was composed or at least completed in The Hague.^[2]

Structure

The work is scored for two oboes, two horns in D, and strings.

$\relative c' { \set Staff.midiInstrument = #"string ensemble 1" \key d \major \tempo "Allegro" \set Score.tempoHideNote = ##t \tempo 4 = 144 d4~\f d8. a16 d4( fis8.) a,16 | d4~ d8. a16 d4( fis8.) a,16 | d8[ r b''\p] r a[ r g] r | fis8[ r g] r fis[ r e] r | <d, d'>4\f }$

There are three movements, as was standard in the early classical music era in which the child Mozart wrote, in the typical fast–slow–fast configuration. They are as follows:

Allegro, D major, (Common time), 78 bars
Andante, G major, ²
₄, 45 bars
Presto, D major, ³
₈, 106 bars

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (2005). Die Sinfonien I. Translated by Robinson, J. Branford. Kassel: Bärenreiter. p. X. ISMN 979-0-006-20466-3.
^ Zaslaw, Neal (1991). Mozart's Symphonies: Context, Performance Practice, Reception. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 44–45. ISBN 0-19-816286-3.

External links

Symphony in D K. 19: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
Symphony No. 4: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
Symphony No. 4 in D major, K.19. Mp3.

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[B-1] Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (2005). Die Sinfonien I. Translated by Robinson, J. Branford. Kassel: Bärenreiter. p. X. ISMN 979-0-006-20466-3.

[2] Zaslaw, Neal (1991). Mozart's Symphonies: Context, Performance Practice, Reception. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 44–45. ISBN 0-19-816286-3.

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v t e Symphonies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Unnumbered	K. 19a K. 45a (Old Lambach) K. 76^a K. 45b^a K. 74g^a K. 81^a K. 95^a K. 97^a K. 75^a K. 111+120 K. 96^a K. 161 K. 135+61h^a K. 196+121 K. 208+102 K. Anh. C 11.04^d K. Anh. C 11.18^d
Numbered	No. 1 (K. 16) No. 2 (K. 17)^b No. 3 (K. 18)^c No. 4 (K. 19) No. 5 (K. 22) No. 6 (K. 43) No. 7 (K. 45) No. 8 (K. 48) No. 9 (K. 73) No. 10 (K. 74) No. 11 (K. 84)^a No. 12 (K. 110) No. 13 (K. 112) No. 14 (K. 114) No. 15 (K. 124) No. 16 (K. 128) No. 17 (K. 129) No. 18 (K. 130) No. 19 (K. 132) No. 20 (K. 133) No. 21 (K. 134) No. 22 (K. 162) No. 23 (K. 181) No. 24 (K. 182) No. 25 (K. 183) No. 26 (K. 184) No. 27 (K. 199) No. 28 (K. 200) No. 29 (K. 201) No. 30 (K. 202) No. 31 (K. 297) (Paris) No. 32 (K. 318) No. 33 (K. 319) No. 34 (K. 338) No. 35 (K. 385) (Haffner) No. 36 (K. 425) (Linz) No. 37 (K. 444)^e No. 38 (K. 504) (Prague) No. 39 (K. 543) No. 40 (K. 550) No. 41 (K. 551) (Jupiter)
Adapted from serenades	K. 204 K. 250 K. 320
Lost	K. 19b K. 66c K. 66d K. 66e K. Anh. C 11.07 K. Anh. C 11.08
^a Symphonies of doubtful authenticity. ^b No. 2 now attributed to Leopold Mozart. ^c No. 3 now attributed to Carl Friedrich Abel (although Mozart changed the instrumentation). ^d Symphonies generally agreed to be spurious today, but included in either the old or new complete editions. ^e No. 37 now attributed to Michael Haydn, except for the slow introduction which Mozart added. List of symphonies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart List of spurious/doubtful Mozart symphonies

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