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Parisian, Or French, Symphony, The

Author: GEORGE GROVE

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

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