Symphony No.

30 (Mozart)
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote Symphony No. 30 in D
major, K. 202/186b[1] in Salzburg, completing it on May 5, 1774.
The work is scored for two oboes, bassoon, two horns,
two trumpets, timpani and strings, but the timpani part has been lost.[2] There has been
at least one attempt to reconstruct the timpani part. [3]

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The work is in 4 movements:

1. Molto allegro, 3
4

2. Andantino con moto (A major), 2

4

3. Menuetto and Trio (the latter in G major), 3

4

4. Presto, 2
4

The first movement is in sonata form and opens with a

falling, dotted fanfare motif.[4] A transitional section follows which contains a dialogue
between violins and bass alternating between loud and soft dynamics and ending
with a trill. The second theme group of the sonata-form structure contains two
sections. The first is a ländler scored for two violins against bass while the second is
a minuet for the tutti featuring trills on almost
every beat.[4] The expositional coda returns to the ländler style.
The development focuses on the minuet-style with the phrase-lengths elongatated.
Following the recapitulation, the movement coda returns to this minuet and
regularizes its phrase-lengths before the final cadence.[4]
In the trio of the minuet, the first violin is syncopated an eighth-note ahead of
the accompaniment.[4]
The finale starts off with a falling dotted fanfare motif similar to the one that starts
the opening movement. The answering phrase and the movement's second theme
have a contradanse character.[4]