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Symphony No. 37 (Mozart)


The Symphony No. 37 in G major, K. 444/425a, is a symphony misattributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
It is the P 16, MH 334 - Symphony No. 25 in G major by Michael Haydn with an Adagio maestoso composed and
added by Mozart as an introduction. Mozart's added introduction led to the misattribution of the entire
symphony being his original work.

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History
References
Sources
External links

History
The complete symphony was for a long time believed to be a work by Mozart, but is now known to have actually
been mostly written by Michael Haydn, being his Symphony No. 25 in G major, Perger 16, Sherman 25, MH 334.
The true authorship was discovered by Lothar Perger in 1907. Modern commentators find it "difficult to
comprehend how the editors of the Breitkopf edition of Mozart could have considered the three movements of
the G major Symphony as the immediate successor of the 'Linz' Symphony; the infinitely simpler and more
archaic art of the Salzburg master offers such a contrast that one might well suppose this symphony to date
much earlier than 1783" if Mozart had been the one to write it.[1]

The introduction was probably composed in late 1783 to be performed in the same concert in Linz in which
Mozart's Symphony No. 36 received its premiere.[2]

Mozart's Adagio maestoso introduction in triple time ends with a fermata on a V7 chord, which leads into a tonic
chord beginning Haydn's work. Georges de Saint-Foix considers the introduction "an expressive prelude, which,
moreover, is by no means entirely in key with the movement it is intended to prepare."[3]

Mozart did not copy the rest of the work verbatim: he removed a bassoon solo from the middle Andante
sostenuto movement, and "appears to have reduced the colla parte writing in the winds throughout the work,"
according to Gary Smith.[4]

The numbers for Mozart's Symphonies Nos. 38 through 41 have not been adjusted because of this symphony.

According to the Breitkopf & Härtel edition, the score calls for flute, 2 oboes, 2 horns and strings; performances
tend to include bassoons (always in unison with the celli except for significant passages in the adagio), which
were part of Michael Haydn's original score but left out by Mozart, and a harpsichord playing figured bass, based
on the cello line. The flute is only used for the first section of the slow movement.[5]

References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._37_(Mozart) 1/2
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1. Saint-Foix, Georges de. The Symphonies of Mozart, transl. Leslie Orrey. London: Dennis Dobson Ltd.
(1949): 94
2. Leopold, Silke (ed.): Mozart-Handbuch. Kassel: Bärenreiter 2005, ISBN 3-7618-2021-6, p. 307
3. Saint-Foix, Georges de. The Symphonies of Mozart, transl. Leslie Orrey. London: Dennis Dobson Ltd.
(1949): 95
4. Smith, Gary. "Haydn, Michael (1737–1806)" (https://archive.is/20120630062132/http://www.mozartforum.co
m/Lore/article.php?id=534). mozartforum.com. Archived from the original (http://www.mozartforum.com/Lore/
article.php?id=534) on 30 June 2012. Retrieved 6 October 2007.
5. Pajot, Dennis. "K444 Symphony #37" (https://web.archive.org/web/20070929091530/http://www.mozartforu
m.com/Lore/article.php?id=085). mozartforum.com. Archived from the original (http://www.mozartforum.com/
Lore/article.php?id=085) on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2009-07-17.

Sources
Perger, Lothar (1907). Thematisches Verzeichnis der Instrumentalwerke von Michael Haydn. Vienna: Artaria.

External links
Symphony No. 37: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
The Classical Archives have Mozart's introduction in a separate file in the Mozart page (http://www.classicala
rchives.com/mozart.html).

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