Symphony No. 33 (Mozart)

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

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,, 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,, in modified sonata form, order of first and second subjects reversed in the recapitulation
 * 3) Menuetto,, in ternary form
 * 4) Finale: Allegro assai,, in sonata form

The autograph score is today preserved in the Biblioteka Jagiellońska, in Kraków.