Symphony No. 33 (Mozart)

Symphony in B♭ major
No. 33
by W. A. Mozart
First page of the autograph manuscript
Key	B-flat major
Catalogue	K. 319
Composed	1779, revised 1782 or 1785
Published	1785 (Artaria)
Movements	Four (Allegro assai, Andante moderato, Menuetto, Finale: Allegro assai)

Symphony No. 33 performed by the New York Classical Players in 2021

The Symphony No. 33 in B♭ major, K. 319, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and dated on 9 July 1779.^[1]

Structure

The symphony has 4 movements, and is scored for strings, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, and 2 horns, the smallest orchestral force employed in his last ten symphonies:

1. Allegro assai, ³
   ₄, in sonata form. The development section of this movement is based on a theme that does not appear in the exposition : the four-note figure that will become the principal theme of the Jupiter Symphony.
2. Andante moderato in E♭ major, ²
   ₄, in modified sonata form, order of first and second subjects reversed in the recapitulation
3. Menuetto, ³
   ₄, in ternary form
4. Finale: Allegro assai, ²
   ₄, in sonata form

The autograph score is today preserved in the Biblioteka Jagiellońska, in Kraków.^[1]

References

1. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (2005). Die Sinfonien IV. Translated by Robinson, J. Branford. Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag. p. XV. ISMN M-006-20466-3

External links

• Symphony No. 33: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
•  Symphony in B-flat K. 319: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe