Joseph Martin Kraus (1756−1792)

Symfoni D-dur [Symphony in D major]

VB 143

Print

I. Allegro
II. Andante un poco largo
III. Allegro

  • Year of composition: Probably Vienna in August-September 1783 (according to van Boer)
  • Work category: Symphony
  • Duration: Approx. 15-20 min
  • Detailed duration: 18'09 (according to the Naxos CD edition)

Instrumentation

1.2.0.2 / 2.0.0.0 / (cont) / str

Examples of printed editions

Sinfonie D-dur [D major]. Ed. by Walther Lebermann, Wiesbaden, Breitkopf & Härtel (1956) [with several editions]

Location for score and part material

Transcription at i.a. Musik- och teaterbiblioteket (H:S: 63 1:1. Mazer-S. Symphonie de Jos. Haydn [sic] en Partition No. 63, according to van Boer)

  • Possible call no. and autograph comment: Autograph lost (according to van Boer it earlier existed at the Royal Opera library, but was destroyed in a fire in 1825; see more below)

Literature

van Boer Jr, Bertil H: Die Werke von Joseph Martin Kraus. Systematisch-thematisches Werkverzeichnis, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music series no. 56, Stockholm (1988); an updated edition in English with a partly revised VB-numbering was published in 1998 by Pendragon Press under the title Joseph Martin Kraus. A Systematic-Thematic Catalogue of His Musical Works and Source Study (the numbering of this work is however unchanged).

Description of work

I. Allegro D major alla breve
II. Andante un poco largo G major 2/4
III. Allegro D major 4/4 (C)


Work comment

According to van Boer, the copyist, Fredrik Samuel Silverstolpe has made an annotation on the back of Symfoni C-dur [Symphony in C major] (VB 138) stating that formerly, there was a symphony by Kraus in the music library of the Royal Theatre, set for 2 violins, viola, 2 oboes, flute, 2 French horns and bass parts. After investigations by the Theatre's manager, Wetterstrand, it is hereby certified that this Symphony, as well as works by other composers, which were bound together with Kraus's symphony, were consumed by flames in the fire in November, 1825. There might exist a transcripton of this symphony in some private collection.