Jagdsinfonie
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The Jagdsinfonie or Sinfonia da Caccia for 4 horns and Strings is a work by Leopold Mozart
in G major. It is scored for corni di caccia, or hunting horns, strings, gunshots, shouting and barking dogs, a naturalism not atypical of this composer.
Movements:
Leopold Mozart
Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was a German composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. Mozart is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule.-Childhood and student years:He was born in Augsburg, son of...
in G major. It is scored for corni di caccia, or hunting horns, strings, gunshots, shouting and barking dogs, a naturalism not atypical of this composer.
Movements:
- Allegro
- Andante più tosto un poco allegretto a gusto d' un Echo
- Menuet
Sources
- Archiv der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien (ms. nr. 13/23533)
- Fürstlich Öttingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek in Harburg (ms. nr. III, 4°, 1/2 4 537)