How many of Mozarts symphonies are still in tact?
I think you mean “how many are extant?” (ie how many exist in our time). I will repeat my answer to your previous question about how many symphonies Mozart wrote: Mozart wrote around 50 symphonies. Some early ones have only been discovered relatively recently – while one or two were mistakenly attributed to him which were written by other composers. When Köchel put the original Mozart catalogue together only 41 numbered symphonies were listed. Curiously, Köchel listed several symphonies to which history never attached numbers. Of these numbered works, ‘No 2’ is actually a work by Johann Christian Bach, ‘No 3’ is by Carl Friedrich Abel and No 37 is a symphony by Michael Haydn (the ‘famous’ Haydn’s younger brother), with only the slow introduction to the first movement being by Mozart. So, already the confusion is setting in – of the 41 numbered symphonies, Mozart only wrote 38 of them! Many early symphonies have, rather misleadingly, been given numbers after 41 (although this is not a u
