The 'Prague' Symphony is sometimes called the 'symphony without minuet' because it is the only one of Mozart's late symphonies to omit this movement.
Compositional Technique
The 'Linz' Symphony is the first time Mozart used a slow introduction to a symphony, a common practice in Vienna and in Joseph Haydn's works.
Composer Biography
Mozart had composed around fifty symphonies by the time he moved from Salzburg to Vienna in 1781, but only completed six more in the last ten years of his life.
Composition History
Mozart composed the Symphony No. 36 'Linz' in just six days, between his arrival in Linz on October 30, 1783, and its performance on November 4, 1783.
Critical Reception
Franz Xaver Niemetschek, an early biographer of Mozart, described the symphonies on this album as 'true masterpieces of instrumental composition, full of surprising transitions,' that 'attune the soul to expect something sublime.'
Composer's Artistic Vision
The 'Prague' Symphony has a dramatic quality that makes its abstract symphonic structure seem like accompanying music for theatrical situations, with echoes of Mozart's operas like 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni'.
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