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Idomeneo Overture, K. 366

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This guide follows Mozart’s Idomeneo Overture, K. 366 (1781) in one part (sonata form).

Recording: Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Harding

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Sonata form0:05–4:33

The starts with noble gestures, soon joined by a brass and delicate violin flourishes, and it moves from D major towards A major. follows. There is no real : a (a passage that steers back to the home ) leads to the . The end is soft and unresolved, and the last chords open onto the first scene in G minor.

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Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.

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