Symphony No.41 in C major (K.551) (Jupiter) (Study Score)

Mozart Symphony No.41 in C major (K.551) (Jupiter) (Study Score)

Much ink has been spilt about Mozart’s final three symphonies K.543, K.550 and K.551.  These three works are the best-known, most frequently heard, and greatest symphonies in the Mozart canon.  As famous as they are today, the contemporary sources tell us little about these three pieces composed in a few weeks of the summer of 1788. 

Mozart’s final symphony, the Symphony in C major (K.551), apparently received its nickname “Jupiter” in England.  In 1829 the English publisher Vincent Novello and his wife Mary paid a visit to Mozart’s widow Constanze in Salzburg.  In his diary, Novello noted a conversation with Mozart’s son Franz Xaver, who informed him that the name “Jupiter” was bestowed upon this work by Johann Peter Salomon, a well-known violinist and impresario in London who also performed Haydn’s late symphonies.  In German-speaking countries, the defining feature of K.551, before its mythological nickname took hold, was its fugal finale and was known as the “Symphony with the Fugue at the End”.

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