Symphony No. 18 (Mozart)

Mozart in 1770

Symphony No. 18 in F major, K. 130, was the last of three symphonies composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in May 1772, when he was sixteen years old.[1]

Structure

The symphony is scored for two flutes, two horns in C and two horns in F for the first, third and fourth movements, in F and B-flat for the second, and strings. There are no oboes in this symphony; Mozart used flutes instead for the first time. Mozart also used a second pair of horns throughout this work, which is a rarity in his oeuvre.[1] In this symphony and the others he wrote around this time he writes for combinations of wind instruments that would not have been available to him – the official list of instrumentalists in the court orchestra included only two/three horns and no flutes. In the case of this symphony, Mozart may have been relying on the common practice where wind players could play several instruments, for example the oboists of the orchestra having flutes as a second instrument.[2]

\new Staff << \new Voice \relative c'' { \tempo "Allegro" \key f \major \voiceOne f16(\p c8.) \repeat unfold 6 { c8-. } | \appoggiatura d16 c( bes8.) \repeat unfold 6 { bes8-. } | \appoggiatura c16 bes( a8.) \repeat unfold 6 { a8-. } | } \new Voice \relative c' { \voiceTwo r4 f a f | r4 g8. f16 e4 c | r4 f8. e16 d4 c | } >>

There are four movements:

  1. Allegro, 4
    4
  2. Andantino grazioso, 3
    8     in B-flat major
  3. Menuetto – Trio, 3
    4
  4. Molto allegro, 4
    4

References

  1. ^ a b Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (2005). Die Sinfonien III. Translated by J. Branford Robinson. Kassel: Bärenreiter. p. X. ISMN M-006-20466-3
  2. ^ Keefe, Simon P (2008). "The Symphonies". In Eisen, Cliff (ed.). The Cambridge Mozart encyclopedia (Repr ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. p. 499. ISBN 978-0-521-85659-1.
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