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No. 10 in

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, K. 74, was written by

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...

probably during his first journey to Italy in the spring of 1770. The symphony is scored for two

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s, two

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and strings. The duration is approximately 9 minutes. : \relative c The symphony is in the form of an

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and consists of the following movements: #

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, –

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, #Allegro, (No tempo assignments are given in the autograph score.) The ''andante'' section is not written as a separate movement, but as the second part of the opening movement, following immediately after a double barline at

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118. The autograph score of the work, which does not contain any additional remarks by Mozart, bears the remark "Ouverture zur Oper Mitridate" (''

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to the

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Mitridate'') by the hand of

Johann Anton André Johann Anton André (6 October 1775 – 6 April 1842) was a German composer and music publisher of the Classical period, best known for his central place in Mozart research. Life Born in Offenbach am Main, André wrote operas, symphonies, masses ...

, which is struck out except for the word "Ouverture". Gerhard Allroggen (ed.), Kritischer Bericht zur Neuen Mozart-Ausgabe Serie IV, Werkgruppe 11 Band 2, Kassel: Bärenreiter 1985, p. b/13 ff.
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Obviously André was under the impression that this piece was originally planned as an overture to ''Mitridate, re di Ponto'' (which has an ouverture of its own, different from this symphony).

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* * 10 1770 compositions Compositions in G major {{symphony-stub