

This movement is in 2/4 time until the end of the last variation, where 6 adagio bars in common time lead to a coda in 6/8 time. Each variation is separated by "identical, basically decorative orchestral ritornelli".

These he made available to Köchel to assist with the creation of the Köchel catalogue of Mozart's work. Mozart and had amassed a large quantity of Mozart letters, original manuscripts and score copies. Jahn wrote the first scholarly biography of W. The work as it is performed today came to light in 1869 as an anonymous copy manuscript in the collection of Otto Jahn. The Sinfonia Concertante as it is played today From this point the original Mozart work became lost. However at the last minute Mozart's piece was displaced from the concert program by a piece for similar forces by Giuseppe Cambini and the Mozart work was never played. He wrote that the four soloists were "in love with" the work and that Joseph Legros, the Concert Spirituel director, had kept the score to have it copied. Mozart knew the three woodwind players from a previous visit to Mannheim. They were Johan Wendling (flute), Friedrich Ramm (Oboe), Giovanni Punto (horn) and Georg Wenzl Ritter (bassoon). In April 1778, Mozart wrote to his father from Paris about the sinfonia concertante he was writing for performance at the Concert Spirituel naming the four virtuoso soloists who were to play.

He originally wrote a work for flute, oboe, horn, bassoon, and orchestra, K. Anh. C 14.01), is a work thought to be by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and orchestra. The Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds in E-flat major, K. 297b (Anh. Problems playing these files? See media help.
