List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific composer and wrote in many genres. Perhaps his best-admired work is in opera, the piano concerto, sonata, the symphony, the string quartet, and string quintet. Mozart also wrote many pieces for solo piano, other forms of chamber music, masses and other religious music, and numerous dances, divertimentos, and other forms of light entertainment.

How Mozart's compositions are listed

Mozart's symphonic production covers a 24-year interval, from 1764 to 1788. According to most recent investigations, Mozart wrote not just the 41 symphonies reported in traditional editions, but up to 68 complete works of this type. However, by convention, the original numbering has been retained, and so his last symphony is still known as "No. 41". Some of the symphonies were revised by the author after their first versions.

Childhood symphonies (1764–1771)

These are the numbered symphonies from Mozart's early childhood.
There are also several "unnumbered" symphonies from this time period. Many of them were given numbers past 41 in an older collection of Mozart's works, but newer collections refer to them only by their entries in the Köchel catalogue. Many of these cannot be definitively established as having been written by Mozart.
These symphonies are sometimes subcategorized as "Early" and "Late", and sometimes subcategorized as "Germanic" or "Italian". None of these were printed during Mozart's lifetime.
Although not counted as "symphonies" the three Divertimenti K. 136–138, in 3-movement Italian overture style, are sometimes indicated as "Salzburg Symphonies" too.
There are also several "unnumbered" symphonies from this time period that make use of music from Mozart's operas from the same time period. They are also given numbers past 41.
There are also three symphonies from this time period that are based on three of Mozart's serenades:
The three final symphonies were completed in about three months in 1788. It is quite likely that he hoped to publish these three works together as a single opus, although actually they remained unpublished until after his death. One or two of them might have been played in public in Leipzig in 1789.

Piano concertos

Mozart's concertos for piano and orchestra are numbered from 1 to 27. The first four numbered concertos are early works. The movements of these concertos are arrangements of keyboard sonatas by various contemporary composers. There are also three unnumbered concertos, K. 107, which are adapted from piano sonatas by J. C. Bach. Concertos 7 and 10 are compositions for three and two pianos respectively. The remaining twenty-one, listed below, are original compositions for solo piano and orchestra. Among them, fifteen were written in the years from 1782 to 1786, while in the last five years Mozart wrote just two more piano concertos.
There are also two isolated rondos for piano and orchestra:
The early arrangements are as follows:
Mozart's five violin concertos were written in Salzburg around 1775. They are notable for the beauty of their melodies and the skillful use of the expressive and technical characteristics of the instrument, though Mozart likely never went through all the violin possibilities that others did after him.
Mozart also wrote a concertone, an adagio and two stand-alone rondos for violin and orchestra.
In addition, there are three works that are spuriously attributed to Mozart.
Arguably the most widely played concertos for horn, the four Horn Concertos are a major part of most professional horn players' repertoire. They were written for Mozart's lifelong friend Joseph Leutgeb. The concertos were written as virtuoso vehicles that allow the soloist to show a variety of abilities on the valveless horns of Mozart's day.
The Horn Concertos are characterized by an elegant and humorous dialogue between the soloist and the orchestra. Many of the autographs contain jokes aimed at the dedicatee.
There are some other unfinished Mozart works for horn and orchestra:
These were not Mozart's only attempts at the genre; a few other fragmentary works were also composed around the same time, though not completed.
Mozart's earliest composition attempts begin with piano sonatas and other piano pieces, as this is the instrument on which his musical education took place. Almost everything that he wrote for piano was intended to be played by himself. Examples of his earliest works are those found in Nannerl's Music Book.
Between 1782 and 1786 he wrote 20 works for piano solo and works for piano four hands and two pianos.

Solo piano works

Dual piano/performer works

Piano four-hands

Violin music

He also wrote for piano and violin. Note the order of the two instruments: for the most part, these are keyboard-centric sonatas where the violin plays a more accompanying role. In later years, the role of the violin grew to not just a support to the other solo instrument, but to build a dialogue with it.
The 'Violin Sonatas', KV 10–15, are unique in that they include an ad lib. cello part along with the score for violin and keyboard. The Neue Mozart-Ausgabe therefore includes them along with the other keyboard trios, although the Köchel catalogue lists them as normal violin sonatas.

Childhood violin sonatas (1763–66)

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The string quintets, for two violins, two violas and cello. Charles Rosen wrote that "by general consent, Mozart's greatest achievement in chamber music is the group of string quintets with two violas."
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The production for instrumental ensembles includes several divertimenti, cassations, notturni, serenades, marches, and dances, a quodlibet, besides, of course, his symphonies. Mozart's production for orchestra is written for string ensembles, as well as for wind instruments ensembles and the varied combinations of string and wind.

Serenades

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Three Milanese Quartets called "Divertimento":
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Mozart left a huge production of dances for orchestra in different genres, including more than 100 minuets, two quadrilles, over 30 contra dances, over 50 allemandes, a gavotte and ballet and pantomime music.
In his production of minuets, Mozart generally followed Haydn's example, preferring the slow character of the dance. Allemandes written between 1787 and 1791 were mainly for public balls in Vienna. In the Contredanse production, also written mainly in Vienna, some examples of program music are found, like Il Temporale, K. 534, La Bataille, K. 535, Canary, K. 600/5, etc.
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Quadrille
Contra dance
Allemande
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Mozart's sacred music is mainly vocal, though also instrumental examples exist, like the Sonate da Chiesa for 2 violins, double bass and organ, composed between 1767 and 1780. His sacred music presents a rich stylistic mosaic: Gregorian choral elements meet rigorous counterpoint, and even operatic elements can sometimes emerge. Stylistic unity and consistency is present over all his sacred music work.

Masses

Kyrie
Gradual
Offertory
Vespers
Magnificat
Antiphon
Three settings of the Marian antiphon Regina coeli:
Miserere
Te Deum
Litany
Litanies:
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Oratorio
Cantata

[Masonic music]

The following are compositions written for the Masonic Lodge: