Symphony No.26 in E-flat major (K.184) (Study Score)

Mozart Symphony No.26 in E-flat major (K.184) (Study 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.  The volume takes its name “Cranz III” from its nineteenth-century owner, August Cranz.

The Symphony in E-flat major K.184 “Del Sigr: Cavaliere Amadeo Mozart”, was completed on 30 March 1773, one month after Mozart’s return from his third tour of Italy.  This date makes it the earliest work in the series.  The first two pages are written in the hand of Leopold Mozart, the rest of the first movement by another copyist, and the remaining movements by Mozart himself.  It was presumably intended to serve as a theatrical overture, for its movements are elided and it calls for flutes as well as oboes – a combination usually found only in theatre music.

- Urtext of the New Mozart Edition

- Full score and performance material (BA4744) and study score format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP72) available for sale

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