Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Symphony No. 32 (K.318) — Notebook

The complete autograph of a Mozart symphony. Then pages of your own.

The document

On 26 April 1779, in Salzburg, Mozart finished a symphony in G major, K. 318. He was twenty-three. He wrote it in brown ink on oblong paper ruled with ten staves — twenty-two leaves, forty-four pages — and that score is kept today at The New York Public Library. This notebook reproduces it complete: every page, in order, at actual size.

Inside the notebook

First, a few pages on the manuscript itself: the story of the symphony; the five people who wrote on its first page — Mozart was only one of them; how to read his notation; and the paper, the ink and the places where he changed his mind.

Then the score, all 44 pages, each opening a verso and the recto that follows it, as they face each other in the manuscript — and the two trumpet parts he kept on separate sheets, with a sum he worked out in a margin.

Then the pages are yours. Choose your paper:

• Staff paper — 51 pages ruled like his: ten staves to a page, each eight millimetres high, the size of Mozart's, measured on the score.
• Lined — 51 lined pages, the lines eight millimetres apart: the height of one of his staves.

Both end with eight pages for notes.

A4, spiral-bound, it lies flat. Mozart wrote on oblong paper, and this notebook has the same shape: it opens the way his score does, a verso on the left and the recto that follows it on the right.

W. A. Mozart · Symphony No. 32 in G, K. 318 · autograph score · Salzburg, 1779 · The New York Public Library, Music Division, JOB 73-55 · Public domain in the United States