SYMPHONY No. 40 - Mozart | Learn to Play Easy Piano Classics (Usborne)

PIANO PERFORMER: William Binden (Liverpool, England, 2022)
TITLE: Molto allegro
WORK: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550
COMPOSER: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
ORIGIN: Vienna, Austria
YEAR: 1788
PIANO ARRANGMENT: Daniel Scott
BOOK: Learn to Play Easy Piano Classics (Usborne)
KEY: G minor
TEMPO: 119 BPM
GENRE: Classial Era, Viennese Period
LEVEL: Grade 2

WIKIPEDIA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._40_(Mozart)

Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1788. It is sometimes referred to as the "Great G minor symphony", to distinguish it from the "Little G minor symphony", No. 25. The two are the only extant minor key symphonies Mozart wrote.

The symphony is scored (in its revised version) for flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, and strings. The work is in four movements, in the usual arrangement for a classical-style symphony (fast movement, slow movement, minuet, fast movement)

The first movement [Molto allegro] begins darkly, not with its first theme but with the accompaniment, played by the lower strings with divided violas. The technique of beginning a work with an accompaniment figure was later used by Mozart in his last piano concerto (KV. 595) and later became a favorite of the Romantics (examples include the openings of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto).