Orchestral Music in Salzburg, 1750–1780

Although sacred vocal music by Mozart's predecessors and contemporaries in Salzburg has been widely studied, symphonies and other orchestral works by many of these composers remain unknown. Yet the repertory of Salzburg symphonies represents the earliest orchestral music to which Mozart was exposed, and its influence can be seen not only among his earliest symphonies, composed in London, Paris, and Holland in 1764–66, but also among the numerous symphonies and serenades of the 1770s. This edition includes previously unavailable orchestral works by three generations of Salzburg composers: the court violoncellist Caspar Christelli (ca. 1706–66) and the court concertmaster Ferdinand Seidel (ca. 1700–73); vice-Kapellmeister Leopold Mozart (1719–87); and the court violinists Wenzel Helbelt (ca. 1736–69) and Joseph Hafeneder (1746–84).