Symphony in D major (K.97) (Full Score)

Mozart Symphony in D major (K.97) (Full Score)

One of the works whose principal source is a lost set of parts from the Breitkopf & Härtel archives is the Symphony in D major, K.97.  The incipit has come down to us in Breitkopf’s catalogue of circulating manuscripts, and the basis of the edition is now the text as handed down in the old Mozart Complete Edition. Lacking any other evidence, attempts have been made to date the work by relating it to the passage in the letter Mozart wrote from Rome in April 1770 “When I have finished this letter I shall finish a symphony I started.  The aria is finished.  Another symphony is with the copyist (the said copyist is my father)”, and by analysing its style.  Alfred Einstein (the late eminent German-American musicologist and critic) assumed that the two works mentioned in Mozart’s letter of 25 April 1770 could only have been K.97 and K.95.  The existing minuet, by Einstein’s reckoning, argues against an Italian provenance and was thus presumably added at a later date.  Given the slender amount of source material, the exact date cannot be determined.

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