Symphony No. 8 (Mozart)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Symphony No. 8 in D major, (K. 48), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is dated 13 December 1768.[1] Mozart wrote the symphony in Vienna, when he was twelve years old, at a time when he and his family were already due to have returned home to Salzburg. In a letter to his friend in Salzburg, Johann Lorenz Hagenauer [Wikidata], Leopold Mozart says of the delay that "we could not bring our affairs to a conclusion earlier, even though I endeavored strenuously to do so."[1] The autograph of the Symphony No. 8 is today preserved in the Berlin State Library.[2]

  1. ^ a b Zaslaw, pp. 119–121
  2. ^ Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (2005). Die Sinfonien I. Translated by J. Branford Robinson. Giglberger, Veronika (preface). Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag. p. XII. ISMN M-006-20466-3