A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Parisian Symphony

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Parish-Alvars, Elias

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians
edited by George Grove

Parisian Symphony by George Grove

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From volume 2 of the work.

1972363A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — Parisian SymphonyGeorge GroveGeorge Grove

PARISIAN, or FRENCH, SYMPHONY, THE. A symphony of Mozart's in D—

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entered in his own autograph list as 'No. 127,' and in Köchel's Catalogue No. 297. Composed in Paris June 1788, and first performed at the Concert Spirituel on Corpus Christi Day, June 18, of the same year. The slow movement, Andantino in G, 6-8, did not please him, and he wrote a second in the same key and much shorter, Andante, 3-4. But he returned to the old one, and altered it, and it is now universally played. The other was performed at the Crystal Palace, March 15, 1873.

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