Letters: Mozart by numbers

I take issue with Nicholas Kenyon's claim (Response, 27 July) that Mozart's symphonies, apart from the very few late, great works, have never been part of the classical canon. I have never heard this view expressed seriously in nearly 40 years' experience of playing and recording Mozart symphonies, late and early, throughout Europe and beyond, in period instrument performance, with normal orchestras and hybrids. We know that after a couple of symphonies composers start to get the hang of it and ...

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