Symphony Minuet in C major (K.409) (Full Score)

Mozart Symphony Minuet in C major (K.409) (Full Score)

The final symphony from Mozart’s Salzburg period is the Symphony in C major, K.338 composed in 1780.  The autograph score was divided in the nineteenth century, after which each part went its separate way. 

One peculiarity of the autograph occurs at the end of the first movement, where Mozart started to write a minuet only to cross it out later.  He evidently excised its continuation on following sheets as well.  Here the decision in favour of four movements rather than three is less novel than the position of the minuet as second movement.  Alfred Einstein (the late eminent German-American musicologist and critic) advanced the thesis that the Minuet K.409 was written for this symphony.  There is no evidence in the sources to support this thesis, however; indeed the scoring of this isolated minuet, with its added flutes, tends to imply the opposite.

- Urtext of the New Mozart Edition

- Full score and performance material (BA5354) available for sale