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Symphony No. 39 (Mozart)

The Symphony No. 39 in E♭ major of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, K. 543, was completed on 26 June 1788.[1]

Symphony No. 39

E♭ major

K. 543

1788 (1788)

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Composition[edit]

The Symphony No. 39 is the first of a set of three (his last symphonies) that Mozart composed in rapid succession during the summer of 1788. No. 40 was completed on 25 July and No. 41 on 10 August.[1] Nikolaus Harnoncourt argues that Mozart composed the three symphonies as a unified work, pointing, among other things, to the fact that the Symphony No. 39 has a grand introduction (in the manner of an overture) but no coda.[2]


Around the time that he composed the three symphonies, Mozart was writing his piano trios in E major and C major (K. 542 and K. 548), his sonata facile (K. 545), and a violin sonatina (K. 547). Mozart biographer Alfred Einstein has suggested that Mozart took Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 26, in the same key, as a model.[3]

(1965). Mozart: A Documentary Biography. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Deutsch, Otto Erich

(1945). Mozart: His Character, His Work. Translated by Arthur Mendel & Nathan Broder. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Einstein, Alfred

Sinfonie in E-flat KV 543: and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe

Score

: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

Symphony No. 39

"Mozart's Apartment on the Alsergrund", apartment where Mozart wrote his last three symphonies

Michael Lorenz