Symphony No.22 in C major (K.162) (Full Score)

Mozart Symphony No.22 in C major (K.162) (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.

According to our current state of knowledge the Symphony in C major K.162 was dated 19 or 29 April 1773, and was thus the third of the nine symphonies in “Cranz III” (see above) to be composed.  It too is scored for trumpets (trombe lunghe) in addition to oboes and horns.  No parts exist (or have survived) for the timpani, which we might well expect to find in a C-major symphony with trumpets.

- Urtext of the New Mozart Edition

- Full score and performance material (BA4743) available for sale