The work is scored for two oboes, two horns and two trumpets in D (silent in the Andantino and Trio), timpani and strings, but the timpani part has been lost.[2] There has been at least one attempt to reconstruct the timpani part.[3]
The first movement is in sonata form and opens with a falling, dottedfanfaremotif.[4] A transitional section follows which contains a dialogue between violins and bass alternating between loud and soft dynamics and ending with a trill. The second theme a group of the sonata-form structure contains two sections. The first is a ländler scored for two violins against bass while the second is a minuet for the tutti featuring trills on almost every beat.[4] The expositionalcoda returns to the ländler style. The development focuses on the minuet style with the phrase-lengths elongated. Following the recapitulation, the movement coda returns to this minuet and regularizes its phrase lengths before the final cadence.[4]
The finale starts with a falling dotted fanfare motif similar to the one that starts the opening movement. The answering phrase and the movement's second theme have a contradanse character.[4]
References
^Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Franz Giegling, Alexander Weinmann & Gerd Sievers, Chronologisch–thematisches Verzeichnis sämtlicher Tonwerke Wolfgang Amadé Mozarts, 6th ed. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel (1964): 203.
^Robert Dearling. The Music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Symphonies (Rutherford, Madison, Teaneck, Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1982), p. 203: "A reconstructed timpani part is provided in which the timpani plays in each of the movements except the slow movement."
^ abcdeBrown, A. Peter, The Symphonic Repertoire (vol. 2). Indiana University Press (ISBN025333487X), pp. 379–381 (2002).