Holy Roman Emperor Francis II is reported to have attended the premiere and reacted by saying,”There is something revolutionary in that music!”
This concert effectively served to announce Beethoven's talents to Vienna. Most sources agree that the concert program also included Beethoven's Septet as well as a symphony by Mozart, but there is some disagreement as to whether the remainder of the program included excerpts from Haydn's oratorio The Creation or from The Seasons and whether Beethoven's own Piano Concerto No. The premiere took place on 2 April 1800 at the K.K. However, Maximilian Franz died 26 July 1801 and the dedication subsequently went to Baron van Swieten. Beethoven had left the Elector's employ in somewhat acrimonious circumstances in March 1794 and the dedication may have been intended as a peace offering. Sketches for the finale are found among the exercises Beethoven wrote while studying counterpoint under Johann Georg Albrechtsberger in the spring of 1797.īeethoven originally intended to dedicate the symphony to Elector Maximilian Franz, who had been forced from Bonn by the armies of revolutionary France and was staying in Hetzendorf, just outside Vienna at the time. The symphony is clearly indebted to Beethoven's predecessors, particularly his teacher Joseph Haydn as well as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but nonetheless has characteristics that mark it uniquely as Beethoven's work, notably the frequent use of sforzandi, as well as sudden shifts in tonal centers that were uncommon for traditional symphonic form (particularly in the third movement), and the prominent, more independent use of wind instruments. It is not known exactly when Beethoven finished writing this work, but sketches of the finale were found to be from 1795. The piece was published in 1801 by Hoffmeister & Kühnel of Leipzig. 21, was dedicated to Baron Gottfried van Swieten, an early patron of the composer.
16: III.Portrait of the composer in 1803, three years after the premiere Imslp: Symphony No.1 in E-flat major, K.16 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus) ġ. Köchelverzeichnis ( original numbering) (number: 16) (order: 18) Köchelverzeichnis ( sixth edition, 1964, K⁶) (number: 16) (order: 66) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( classical composer) (in 1764)
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