Symphony No.25 in G minor (K.183) (Study Score)

Mozart Symphony No.25 in G minor (K.183) (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.  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 compositions of 1773 already contain one extremely famous work: the “Little” G-minor Symphony.  At this stage of his career, which he spent largely in Salzburg as a young musician, Mozart’s compositional skills reached an entirely new level.  The many stimuli and musical encounters he had experienced on his journeys could now, as many commentators have noted, mature in a unique manner and forge a synthesis between his models and his own artistic personality.  The “Little” G-minor Symphony K.183 stands alongside K.201 among the earliest Mozart symphonies to have maintained a place in today’s concert repertoire.

- Urtext of the New Mozart Edition

- Full score and performance material (BA4748) and study score format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP76) available for sale