Cinderella and W.A. Mozart Symphony No 40 — Золушка и В.А. Моцарт Симофония № 40 — 1. Molto Allegro

First part of symphony No 40 ( Molto allegro ) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Cinderella by Charles Perrault. Symphony No. 40 in G minor, KV. 550 was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1788. It is sometimes referred to as the “Great G minor symphony“, to distinguish it from the “Little G minor symphony“, No. 25. The date of completion of this symphony is known exactly, since Mozart in his mature years kept a full catalog of his completed works; he entered the 40th Symphony into it on 25 July 1788. Work on the symphony occupied an exceptionally productive period of just a few weeks during which time he also completed the 39th and 41st symphonies. Nikolaus Harnoncourt conjectured that Mozart composed the three symphonies as a unified work, pointing, among other things, to the fact that the Symphony No. 40, as the middle work, has no introduction (unlike No. 39) and does not have a finale of the scale of No. 41’s. The 40th symphony exists in two versions, differing prima