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[[File:Mozart family crop.jpg|thumb|Detail of Carmontelle's Mozart family watercolour]]
The piece of music once known as [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]'s '''Symphony No. 2''' in [[B-flat major|B{{music|flat}} major]], [[Köchel catalogue|K.]] 17, is now considered to be not by him, but by possibly his father, [[Leopold Mozart]].<ref>For the attribution to Leopold Mozart, see [[Stanley Sadie]], ''The New Grove Mozart'' (New York: Norton, 1983), p.&nbsp;197 (Mozart work list). {{ISBN|0-393-30084-6}}.</ref> This [[symphony]] has been given the number Anhang C 11.02 in the sixth edition of [[Ludwig Ritter von Köchel]]'s catalogue of Mozart's music,<ref>Sadie, p.&nbsp;197.</ref> and is now also catalogued as Eisen [[B-flat major|B{{music|b}}]] 6 (LMV VII:B6) in [[Cliff Eisen]]'s catalogue of Leopold Mozart's symphonies. It was written for 2 [[oboe]]s, 2 [[natural horn|horn]]s in B{{music|flat}}, and a [[string section]].

:<score sound="1">
\relative c'' {
  \key bes \major
  \tempo "Allegro"
  \partial 4 f8.\f f16 bes4 d,8. d16 f4 f,8. f16 bes4 d8. f16 \times 2/3 {f,8-. f (g} \times 2/3 {as g f)} g4
}
</score>

The symphony is in four [[Movement (music)|movements]] in the usual quick–slow–[[minuet]]–quick pattern:

#[[Tempo#Basic tempo markings|Allegro]]
#([[Andante (tempo)|Andante]])<ref>The parentheses are around the tempo designation "Andante" in the score of the symphony.</ref> in [[E-flat major]]
#[[Menuetto]] I & II
#[[Presto (music)|Presto]]
The publication of this symphony in the ''[[Alte Mozart-Ausgabe]]'', the first collected edition of Mozart's music, shows several points at which smaller, editorially-supplied notes are given, suggesting an unfinished composition. For instance, in "Menuetto I", only the first [[violin]] and [[cello]]/[[double bass]] parts are completed; the second [[violin]] and [[viola]] parts in their entirety in this movement are editorial additions.<ref>See the score linked below.</ref>

Since K. 17 is now believed not to be by W. A. Mozart, the ''[[Neue Mozart-Ausgabe]]'' does not include this symphony as part of its edition.

==References==
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== External links ==
*{{IMSLP|work=Symphony, Eisen B-flat 6 (Mozart, Leopold)|cname=Symphony No. 2}}

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