[1] The longest and last symphony that he composed, it is regarded by many critics as among the greatest symphonies in classical music. [2][3] The work is nicknamed the Jupiter Symphony, likely coined by the impresario Johann Peter Salomon.[4][a]. Michael Rodman writes in the All Music Guide to Classical Music that the first movement is "characterized in part by the dramatic and effective employment of unexpected pauses in the rhythmic flow through the use of rests, [and that] irregular and changing phrase length contribute ... to the dramatic impetus." 40 on 25 July. Nikolaus Harnoncourt argues that Mozart composed the three symphonies as a unified work, pointing, among other things, to the fact that the Symphony No. 41 (Mozart) has been listed as a level-4 vital article in Art. From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Symphony_No._41_%22Jupiter%22_(Mozart)&oldid=6176243, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. Charles Sherman speculates that Mozart also studied Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 23 in D major because he "often requested his father Leopold to send him the latest fugue that Haydn had written. If you can improve it, please do. "[14], As summarized below, the Symphony garnered approbation from critics, theorists, composers and biographers and came to be viewed as a canonized masterwork, known for its fugue and its overall structure which exuded clarity. According to Franz Mozart, Wolfgang's younger son, the symphony was given the name Jupiter by Johann Peter Salomon,[4][10] who had settled in London in around 1781. This page was last changed on 28 June 2018, at 01:03. "[9] The Michael Haydn No. It is his last symphony. According to Otto Erich Deutsch, around this time Mozart was preparing to hold a series of "Concerts in the Casino" in a new casino in the Spiegelgasse owned by Philipp Otto. 41 in C, K. 551 [complete] (Jupiter), 🎼 W. A. Mozart Symphony no. The Symphony No. [d], In a phrase ascribed to musicologist Elaine Sisman in a book devoted to the "Jupiter" (Cambridge Musical Handbooks, 1993),[page needed] most responses ranged "from admiring to adulatory, a gamut from A to A. [b] Thus the majestic nickname is also a humorous one. The work is nicknamed the Jupiter Symphony, likely coined by the impresario Johann Peter Salomon. Symphony No.41 in C major, K.551 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus) Incipit see below I. Movements/Sections Mov'ts/Sec's: 4 movements Composition Year 1788 (August 10) Genre Categories: When the nickname, C. Sherman, Foreword to score of Sinfonia in C, Perger 31 Vienna: Doblinger K. G. (1967). What follows is a transitional passage where the two contrasting motifs are expanded and developed. We have created a browser extension. You could also do it yourself at any point in time. The apartment where Mozart wrote his last three Symphonies. No. The trio has an "earthier, more overtly dancelike mood", he writes, but is "interrupted by a suddenly more serious" outburst from the full orchestra. [6] With the exception of the usual key transpositions and some expansion of the minor key sections, the recapitulation proceeds in a regular fashion. 41 in C major 'Jupiter', K. 551 | Mozart Classical Music for Relaxation, Symphony No.41 In C Major Jupiter-Minuetto Allegro-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 41 reminded Cramer of Jupiter and his thunderbolts. The name has also been attributed to Johann Baptist Cramer, an English music publisher. 41 in C major "Jupiter" K. 551 (1788). (2006, January 25). A false recapitulation then occurs where the movement's opening theme returns but softly and in F major. Of the piece as a whole, he wrote that "It is the greatest orchestral work of the world which preceded the French Revolution.