About this edition
Composed in the summer of 1778 during Mozart's fateful trip to the French capital, Symphony No. 31 in D Major, K.297, the "Paris," marks the twenty-two-year-old composer's first encounter with a truly virtuosic ensemble — the famed Concert Spirituel orchestra — and his first symphony to employ clarinets. The result is a brilliant, extroverted work tailored to Parisian taste, opening with the obligatory premier coup d'archet and showcasing a confident command of the larger Mannheim-influenced orchestral palette that would shape his mature symphonic style.
This score is reproduced from the celebrated Mozarts Werke, the first complete critical edition of Mozart's works, issued by Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig between 1877 and 1883. The "Paris" Symphony appears in Serie VIII (Symphonien), Band 2, No. 31, published in 1880 under plate number W.A.M. 297. Prepared under the editorial supervision of leading nineteenth-century Mozart scholars, the Breitkopf Gesamtausgabe remains a landmark of musical philology and served as the foundational reference for Mozart performance and scholarship for nearly a century, prized for its careful engraving and its painstaking collation of autograph and early printed sources.
About this edition:
- Format: Full orchestral conductor's score
- Page size: 8.5 x 11 inches
- Source: Mozarts Werke, Serie VIII, Bd. 2, No. 31 (Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1880; plate W.A.M. 297)
- Pages reproduced: 40 pages of music
- Reproduced from a public domain historical edition
- Publisher: Purple 4R Publishing
This printing faithfully reproduces a historical edition that has long since entered the public domain, bringing a beautifully engraved nineteenth-century score back into the hands of conductors, players, students, and Mozart enthusiasts at a friendly price. We hope it finds a happy home on your music stand or library shelf.
