Symphony No. 31 (Mozart) composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composition and premiere
The work was composed in 1778 during Mozart's unsuccessful job-hunting sojourn in Paris. The composer was then 22 years old. The premiere took place on 12 June 1778 in a private performance in the home of Count Karl Heinrich Joseph von Sickingen, the ambassador of the Electorate of the Palatinate. The public premiere took place six days later in a performance at the Concert Spirituel.The work received a positive review in the June 26 issue of the Courrier de l'Europe, published in London:
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