Mozart Symphony No. 40

Features Mozart Symphony No. 40

The 40th Symphony was completed on 25 July 1788.
The composition occupied an exceptionally productive period of just a few weeks in 1788, during which time he also completed the 39th and 41st symphonies (26 June and 10 August, respectively).Nikolaus Harnoncourt argues 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.
41s.