Symphony No. 3 (Mozart) Symphony No. 3 (Mozart) The so-called Symphony No. 3 in E major, K. 18, once attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is by today's scholarship considered not to be Mozart's own work but instead that of Carl Friedrich Abel, a leading German composer of the earlier Classical period. It was misattributed to Mozart because a manuscript score in the hand of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was categorized as his Symphony No. 3 in E, K. 18, and was published as such in the first complete edition of Mozart's works by Breitkopf & Härtel. Later, it was discovered that this symphony was actually
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart of wanting his musical servant to be at hand (Mozart indeed was required to dine in Colloredo's establishment with the valets and cooks.) But Mozart was planning a bigger career even as he continued in the archbishop's service; for example, to his father he wrote: My main goal right now is to meet the emperor in some agreeable fashion, I am absolutely determined he . I would be so happy if I could whip through my opera for him and then play a fugue or two, for that's what he likes. Mozart did indeed soon meet the Emperor, who eventually