Talk:Symphony No. 35 (Mozart)

The other discrepancy on this page - the inclusion of K455 even though it, also, was written after March 1783 - might be explained if, as Einstein and others conjecture, Mozart wrote down variations and other piano works some time after improvising them. It is conceivably a different set of variations on the same Gluck tune, instead of an earlier set improvised on the occasion and only later written down and noted in the book he kept from K.449 on. Schissel : bowl listen 07:03, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

It is not clear where the information that the Haffner symphony was derived from the Haffner serenade came from. Can anyone clarify this as I have recently seen it asserted that one should not make the mistake of thinking that the symphony was derived from the serenade, though it is possible Mozart constructed a different "symphony" for performance purposes from the serenade. drfcb April 30, 2006

Integration of User:Professor in music's edit
His contribution is here:. After some discussion on our talk pages, I'm going to see if I can wikify it and add it to this page. Many edits will follow in the next few hours. I'll post again when I'm done. DavidRF 02:05, 16 June 2007 (UTC)


 * OK. That's enough editing for me tonight.  I hope all of the pertinent new information has been preserved.  Most of what I removed from the original pertained to standard descriptions of sonata form symphonic movements.  I tried to keep all that pertained specifically to this work.  DavidRF 04:42, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Reworking the serenade
"These alterations included dropping the introductory, the closing marches,..." Could somebody clarify exactly what this means? "Introductory and closing marches", Introduction and closing marches? I'm a bit puzzled because the (admittedly old) Eulenburg score I have talks, in its introduction, of only one march. Thanks. --Zeisseng 21:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for helping to clean this up. I bit off a little more than I could chew when I offered to help integrate a recent large edit.  allmusic.com refers to the dropping of a minuet and a concluding march.  Also, it could be that the same march was played before and after the serenade.  Hurwitz writes that the K.249 march was often played before and after the K.250 Serenade.  Feel free to clean up the wording based on the facts you've found independently.  The main point here is that the original serenade was cut and reorchestrated.  I'm curious, do you have a score for the original "Second Haffner Serenade"?  Thanks.  DavidRF 04:03, 9 August 2007 (UTC)


 * No, nothing so exotic I'm afraid! Just the symphony with an introduction in German dating from the 1930s so I'm reluctant to use that as a source...--Zeisseng 20:05, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

"recalling" Haydn's #104
Re the first movement, the article says, "recalling the monothematic sonata movements of Haydn (e.g. Symphony No. 104)". It's awkward to say Mozart's 35 "recalls" Haydn's 104 which was composed about 13 years later. This could be rephrased (which i could do), but i think it'd be better to use an earlier Haydn, since Haydn's influence on Mozart was of course huge. And i'm not the right person to pick a chronologically/causally appropriate example. Thanks for the good work, "alyosha" (talk) 19:38, 13 October 2012 (UTC)