Although its woodwind section was originally scored for flute, two bassoons, and two oboes, its composer revised this symphony's oboe music to include two B-flat clarinets.
The first two of Leonard Bernstein's Norton Lectures analyzed the structure of this symphony, whose score unusually omits trumpets and timpani. Although its woodwind section was originally scored for flute, two bassoons, and two oboes, its composer revised this symphony's oboe music to include two B-flat clarinets. Its finale's development begins with a ten-tone row which omits G natural, the tonic of this symphony's key. Unusually for Classical symphonies, its first movement opens with an accompaniment played by the violas before the violins introduce its main melody, which repeats the notes E flat, D, and D three times and then ascends to a quarter note in B flat. To differentiate it from its composer's 25th symphony in the same key, it is often known as its composer's "Great" symphony in G minor. For 10 points, name this symphony by Mozart, who composed it before the Jupiter symphony.
The first two of Leonard Bernstein's Norton Lectures analyzed the structure of this symphony, whose score unusually omits trumpets and timpani.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony no. 40 in G minor [or the Great Symphony in G minor before mentioned; or K550]