Best Mozart Symphony

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
40	5
41	4
42	3
29	1
37	1
30	0
28	0
27	0
26	0
25	0
24	0
32	0
31	0
33	0
34	0
35	0
36	0
6	0
38	0
39	0
23	0
22	0
21	0
10	0
9	0
8	0
7	0
5	0
4	0
3	0
2	0
11	0
12	0
20	0
19	0
18	0
17	0
16	0
15	0
14	0
13	0
1	0

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

I hope that people vote on this. I want to investigate Mozart but really don't know where to start. Violin Concertos are good tho.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

I will be very surprised if Symphony #1 wins. :)
(I voted for #40, but #41 is also great)

And btw. if someone feels like complaining, then shut up or the next one out is Joseph Haydn and his 104 symphonies. :)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

Which one is '42'? I'm guessing it's not The Toy Symphony by Leopold ;-)

― Jeff W, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

I think the 42 is slightly less famous. Out of the works Mozart composed towards the end of his life, "Requiem" and "The Magic Flute" are more famous than any of his latest orchestral works.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

It's interesting - if there are people who argue in favor of Mozart's earlier or middle symphonies vs. the towering last few, I haven't heard them - historical consensus carries a big ol' hammer in the classical world I think. (Cf. Beethoven's quartets: you'd think that there'd be some argument that the middle ones are the equal of the late ones, from some quarter somewhere, but is there?)

― Hans Rott, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

He was just a very young lad when he composed his very first symphonies.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

OK, looked it up and his symphony #1 was composed in 1764, by which time he was eight years old. :)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

Btw. I seem to have made a mistake. There was never a Symphony #42... Sorry :)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

Wow! I can actually answer this. 40 it is. His best key was D Minor, though (is there some D Minor in 40?).

― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for 37, just to be a dick.

― M.V., Monday, 23 April 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

Haha
Symphony No. 37 in G major, K. 444 (1784)
For years this was categorized as a Mozart symphony, but later scholarship determined that it was actually composed by Michael Haydn (No. 26), and Mozart wrote only the slow introduction for it.

Shit this is really, really hard. I went for #29 in the end, though i'd be happy when #40 or #41 wins. Because there is no wrong answer.

― Frogman Henry, Monday, 23 April 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for 40, although I'm not much of a Mozart scholar.

― St3ve Go1db3rg, Monday, 23 April 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

"I think the 42 is slightly less famous. Out of the works Mozart composed towards the end of his life, "Requiem" and "The Magic Flute" are more famous than any of his latest orchestral works."

― Frogman Henry, Monday, 23 April 2007 23:32 (eighteen years ago)

"I think the 42 is slightly less famous. Out of the works Mozart composed towards the end of his life, "Requiem" and "The Magic Flute" are more famous than any of his latest orchestral works."

you forget the clarinet concerto.

― Frogman Henry, Monday, 23 April 2007 23:32 (eighteen years ago)

sorry for double post.

― Frogman Henry, Monday, 23 April 2007 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, the clarinet concerto is absolutely more famous than his nonexistant 42nd Symphony. That is true ;)

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 00:06 (eighteen years ago)

Somehow I like everything Mozart did in a minor key so much more ... his ratio of hits to misses is so much higher.

Regardless, though, it's gotta be the Jupiter.

― HPSCHD, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 00:22 (eighteen years ago)

Mozart was fantastic in a minor key.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 00:26 (eighteen years ago)

Why do I get the feeling everyone will vote for 42 now?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 00:31 (eighteen years ago)

Which is the violin one that goes DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH DE-DUUUUUH DE-DUUUHH DODUDADUHDODUDAH DUH DAH DOOOOHHH!?

― the next grozart, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 01:00 (eighteen years ago)

"the violin one" ? you mean, like, a violin concerto?

― Frogman Henry, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 01:01 (eighteen years ago)

To be a complete dick, the Breitkopf edition lists 50 symphonies, although nine of these are dubious, lost, or composites from other works.

Gotta be one of the last three ... let's say 41.

― Tim R-J, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:43 (eighteen years ago)

As if we've all heard all of these. And Mozart didn't even see himself as a symphonist. Is this a joke thread?

― Rich Smörgasbord, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

Which is the one that goes diddle-um diddle-um diddle-um-dum, diddle-um diddle-um diddle-um diddle-um?

Actually I rarely listen to Mozart symphonies. I much prefer the piano concertos, horn concertos, clarinet concerto and even the bassoon concerto. Not to mention the clarinet quintet.

― underpants of the gods, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

Might have picked those too, but it was so easy to list just the symphonies. They have numbers. :)

Btw. his piano concerto #23 is my all time favourite classical piece. Particularly the beautiful second movement. As, said above, Mozart was fantastic when he composed in a minor key.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

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