Symphony No.24 in B-flat major (K.182) (Full Score)

Mozart Symphony No.24 in B-flat major (K.182) (Full Score)

The so-called nine “Salzburg” symphonies were composed after Mozart had returned from his final journey to Italy.  Their textual transmission is especially straightforward and convenient: shortly after their composition the autograph scores were gathered together by Leopold Mozart, who also supplied a table of contents with incipits, and bound in a single volume.  They have remained in this form to the present day.  The volume takes its name “Cranz III” from its nineteenth-century owner, August Cranz.

The date of the Symphony in B-flat major K.182 is heavily crossed out but can be deciphered to read “il 3 d’ottobre a Salisburgo 1773”.  Besides the autograph score, the piece has come down to us in another authentic source in the above mentioned Cranz III volume.  A set of parts from Mozart’s personal library, with annotations in his hand, is preserved today in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.  Ten years after composing the work, Mozart asked his father to forward the orchestral material to him in Vienna.

- Urtext of the New Mozart Edition

- Full score and performance material (BA4747) available for sale