Symphony No. 19 (Mozart)

Mozart in 1770

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

Structure

The symphony is scored for two oboes, four horns (two in E-flat high, two in E-flat low), and strings.

There are four movements:

1. Allegro, ^4
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2. Andante, ^3
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3. Menuetto – Trio, ^3
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4. Allegro, ^2
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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 form (ABACADA). Each part of the rondo is repeated except for the final A.[2]

References

1. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (2005). Die Sinfonien III. Translated by Robinson, J. Branford. Kassel: Bärenreiter. p. XI. ISMN M-006-20466-3
2. Brown, A. Peter, The Symphonic Repertoire (Volume 2). Indiana University Press (ISBN 0-253-33487-X), p. 367 (2002).

External links

•  Symphony in E-flat, K. 132: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, first movement recordings
• Symphony No. 19: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project