Mozart, Symphony no.32

[steltz]

The page for this work:

http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.32_in ... g_Amadeus)#

includes a tag for "overtures", and the General Information section includes this word as a subtitle, but I don't see it used in the Breitkopf & Härtel edition at all. I think it either comes from a later edition, or is a mistake.

Before I remove the overtures tag, does anyone have any information about it?

[Davydov]

Hi Steltz. The Köchel catalogue includes the subtitle "Ouverture", on the basis that it was first published as "Ouverture pour l'Opera la Villanella rapita".

[steltz]

Thanks, I'll leave it then.

[Eric]

the listing in RISM suggests that this was the case on a MS copy found in Speyer also (" [label on cover:] La Villanella rapita | von | W. A. Mozart. | Partitur [title page:] Ouverture | zu Bianchis Oper: | La Villanella rapita | von | W. A. Mozart. | (Componirt zu Salzbrg den 26ten April 1779.)" See RISM listing 455028738.)

(Don't know if this MS copy was made after or before the B&H edition was published, though. If before, it's slightly better evidence, though not conclusive absent an autograph, it's true.)

[Eric]

Hrm, I said "absent autograph", but there is an autograph score- it's at NYPL- of the 1779 version (the work was later revised)- and according to RISM if I understand the auto. score doesn't say overture/ouverture etc.