FIRST - Symphony by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Ebury Street, London, UK
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This brown London County Council plaque, to Mozart's first symphony composition, is attached to a building on the north west side of Ebury Street close to Orange Square where there is a statue of Mozart.
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Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/09/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Zork V
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica website tells us about Mozart:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in full Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (born January 27, 1756, Salzburg, archbishopric of Salzburg [Austria]—died December 5, 1791, Vienna), Austrian composer, widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. With Haydn and Beethoven he brought to its height the achievement of the Viennese Classical school. Unlike any other composer in musical history, he wrote in all the musical genres of his day and excelled in every one. His taste, his command of form, and his range of expression have made him seem the most universal of all composers; yet, it may also be said that his music was written to accommodate the specific tastes of particular audiences.

Wikipedia tells us about Mozart's first symphony:

The Symphony No. 1 in E flat major, K. 16, was written in 1764 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of eight years. By this time, he was already notable in Europe as a wunderkind performer, but had composed little music.

The autograph score of the symphony is today preserved in the Biblioteka Jagiellonska in Kraków.

The piece was written on the Mozart family's Grand Tour of Europe in London when they had to move to Chelsea during the summer of 1764 due to Mozart's father Leopold's illness (throat infection). The house at 180 Ebury Street, now in the borough of Westminster, where this symphony was written, is marked with a plaque. The symphony was first performed on 21 February 1765. The work shows the influence of several composers, including his father and the sons of Johann Sebastian Bach, especially Johann Christian Bach, an important early symphonist working in London whom Mozart had met during his time there.

The symphony is scored for 2 oboes, 2 horns, harpsichord and strings.

The work is in 3 movements:

  •     Molto allegro, 4/4
  •     Andante, C minor, 2/4
  •     Presto, 3/8

In the second movement, the eight-year-old Mozart makes use of the four note motif that appears in the finale of his Jupiter symphony, No. 41. The four notes, Do, Re, Fa, Mi, make an appearance in several of Mozart's works, including his Symphony No. 33.[3] This theme is stated by the horns in his first symphony.

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Date of FIRST: 01/01/1764

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