Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41 莫札特

在幾周的時間裡，莫札特寫下了他最後的三部交響曲，其中《G小調交響曲》（K. 550）是倒數第二部。第一部降E調交響曲於6月26日完成，其中雙簧管換成了單簧管，第二部G小調交響曲於7月25日完成，第三部即所謂的《木星交響曲》于兩周後完成。G 小調交響曲》最初沒有使用單簧管，在後來的修改中加入了這些樂器。與其他交響曲不同的是，它沒有使用小號和鼓。據推測，這三部交響曲是為下一音樂季在維也納舉行的音樂會準備的。事實上，莫札特已不再舉辦自己的音樂會，正如他早年在維也納所做的那樣。1791 年 3 月，他的最後一首鋼琴協奏曲 K.595，在單簧管演奏家約瑟夫-巴爾（Joseph Bahr）安排的節目單中演出。G 小調交響曲》可能是同年 4 月由宮廷指揮薩列裡指揮的音樂會的曲目之一，當時樂團有 180 名演奏家"

作曲家: Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus
出版社: Alfred Music
風格: Masterwork
原文簡介:
It was during the space of a few weeks that Mozart wrote down his last three symphonies, of which the Symphony in G minor, K. 550, is the penultimate. The first of the group, the Symphony in E-flat, in which oboes are replaced by clarinets, was finished on 26th June, the second, in G minor, on 25th July and the third, the so-called Jupiter Symphony, two weeks later. The G minor Symphony, originally written without clarinets, had these instruments added in a later revision. Unlike its companions, it makes no use of trumpets and drums. Presumably the three symphonies were intended to form pan of concerts to be given in Vienna in the coming season. In fact, Mozart was to give no more concerts of his own music, as he had done in earlier years in Vienna. His last Piano Concerto, K. 595, was performed as pan of a programme arranged by the clarinetist Joseph Bahr in March, 1791. The G minor Symphony probably formed pan of a concert conducted by Salieri, the court Kapellmeister, with an orchestra of 180 players in April of the same year.