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Symphony in E♭ major
Symphony in E♭ major
No. 1
by W. A. Mozart
	First page of the autograph manuscript
Key	E-flat major
Catalogue	K. 16
Composed	1764
Movements	Three (Molto allegro, Andante, Presto)

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The Symphony No. 1 in E♭ major, K. 16, is a symphony written in 1764 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of eight years.^[1] By this time, he was already notable in Europe as a wunderkind performer but had composed little music.

The autograph score (handwritten original) of the symphony is today preserved in the Biblioteka Jagiellońska in Kraków.^[1]

Background

The symphony was written on the Mozart family's Grand Tour of Europe in London when they had to move to Chelsea during the summer of 1764 due to Mozart's father Leopold's throat infection.^[1]^[2] The house at 180 Ebury Street, now in the borough of Westminster, where this symphony was written, is marked with a plaque. The symphony was first performed on 21 February 1765. The work shows the influence of several composers, including his father and the sons of Johann Sebastian Bach, especially Johann Christian Bach, an important early symphonist working in London whom Mozart had met during his time there.

Movements and instrumentation

The symphony is scored for 2 oboes, 2 horns in E♭, and strings.

$\relative c'' { \set Staff.midiInstrument = #"string ensemble 1" \key es \major \tempo "Molto allegro" \set Score.tempoHideNote = ##t \tempo 2 = 84 es2\f g | \repeat unfold 8 { bes8 } | g4 es r2 | bes1\p | as | as | g | g | }$

The work is in 3 movements:

Molto allegro, ⁴
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Andante, C minor, ²
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Presto, ³
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In the second movement, the eight-year-old Mozart makes use of the four note motif that appears in the finale of his Jupiter symphony, No. 41. The four notes, C, D, F, E, make an appearance in several of Mozart's works, including his Symphony No. 33.^[3] This theme is stated by the horns in his first symphony.

In his book on the piano concertos, Cuthbert Girdlestone pointed out the similarity between the opening of this symphony and that of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 22, K. 482, composed some twenty years later.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (2005). Die Sinfonien I. Translated by Robinson, J. Branford. Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag. p. IX. ISMN M-006-20466-3
^ Sadie, Stanley, Mozart: The Early Years 1756–1781, pp. 64–65, Oxford University (2006), ISBN 978-0-19-816529-3
^ "Fall Concert 2011". Kamuela Philharmonic Orchestra. 31 August 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
^ Girdlestone, C. M. (1948) Mozart’s Piano Concertos, p. 346, London, Cassell.

External links

Sinfonie in Es KV 16: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
Symphony No. 1: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

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

[sadie6465-2] Sadie, Stanley, Mozart: The Early Years 1756–1781, pp. 64–65, Oxford University (2006), ISBN 978-0-19-816529-3

[3] "Fall Concert 2011". Kamuela Philharmonic Orchestra. 31 August 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2013.

[4] Girdlestone, C. M. (1948) Mozart’s Piano Concertos, p. 346, London, Cassell.

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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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