- Year of composition: Stockholm February 1789 after a march in Mozart's opera 'Idomeneo', Act I (according to van Boer)
- Work category: Orchestral works in one movement
- First performed: St Nicolai Church (Storkyrkan [lit. The Great Church]), Stockholm, at the opening of Parliament at the beginning of March 1789
- Duration: Approx. 1-5 min
- Detailed duration: 3'49 (according to the Musica Sveciae MSCD 419 edition)
Instrumentation
2.2.0.2 / 4.2.0.0 / timp (cont) / str
Location for score and part material
Transcriptions at Musik- och teaterbiblioteket: KO/Sv-R Introduzzione Maestoso, da G. M. Kraus (bound with i.a. VB 147), Uppsala University Library: Kapsel 34. Si-S Marsch af Kraus Partitur [Sleeve 34. Si-S March by Kraus Score]
- Possible call no. and autograph comment: The Royal Opera library: Kyrkomusik 31 Marche af Kraus (oboe part missing)
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
Maestoso D major 4/4 (C)
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Work comment
The copyist, Fredrik Samuel Silverstolpe, has made an annotation on the copy, stating that this March, set for and used at the procession in St. Nicolai Church in Stockholm at the Riksdagen [Parliament('s opening in)] 1789, is a revised version of Mozart's march in the first Act of the opera 'Idomeneo, albeit Kraus has altered both the theme and character. It is also 20 bars longer than Mozart's march.
Cf. also the Sinfonia per la chiesa ("Riksdagssymfoni" [Parliament symphony]/ "Sinfonia con fugato") in D major VB 146