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Sinfonia Concertante

Arts Desk

What's a Sinfonia Concertante? Mozart Wrote One for Two of His Favorite Instruments

Susan Lewis

Mozart played both violin and viola, and wrote his Sinfonia Concertante for those two instruments in 1779 after a trip to Paris and Mannheim, where the form was popular.