Böhm conducts Mozart: Symphony No. 1, K. 16

Mozart composed his first symphony in London in 1764-5 when he was just eight years old and, although inspired both by the music of his friend Johann Christian Bach and the prevailing style of Italian opera buffa, it shows a young composer of the most astonishing precociousness experimenting in a genre that was still very much in its infancy. Though the work of an eight-year-old, it here receives a distinctly grown-up performance from a Mozartian dream-team of Karl Böhm and the Wiener Philharmoniker, captured in 1978.

Ensemble: 

Wiener Philharmoniker

Conductor: 

Karl Böhm