Symphony No. 19 (Mozart)

Symphony No. 19 in E flat major, K. 132, was a symphony composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in July, 1772.[1]

Structure

The symphony has the scoring of two oboes, four horns (two of them uniquely written in "E flat alto"), and strings.

There are four movements:

  1. Allegro, 4/4
  2. Andante, 3/8
  3. Menuetto: Trio, 3/4
  4. Allegro, 2/2

The first movement opens with a motif that Mozart would later use at the beginning of his twenty-second piano concerto in the same key.[2] The exposition is brief and there is no repeat. The development focuses on new material.[2]

There is also an alternative slow movement, marked Andantino grazioso.[1] The tempo marks in the first, second and fourth movements were written in the hand of Leopold Mozart.[1]

The finale is a French rondo in seven part (ABACADA) form. Each part of the rondo is repeated except for the final A.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Giglberger, Veronika (preface), Robinson, J. Branford (transl.) (2005). Die Sinfonien III.. Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag. pp. p. XI.  ISMN M-006-20466-3
  2. ^ a b c Brown, A. Peter, The Symphonic Repertoire (Volume 2). Indiana University Press (ISBN 0-253-33487-X), pp. 367 (2002).

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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.

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