- Köchel Number
- K9 674 | K6
- Genre
- Orchestral Music
- Form
- Dances & Marches
- Key
- D Major
- Date
- 1778
- Place
- Paris
- Age
- 22
Mozart’s Two Dance Movements in D major (K. 674) is a small, poorly documented Paris fragment from 1778, written when the composer was 22. What survives suggests occasional music in a French capital context—practical, upbeat, and left incomplete before it could be fully orchestrated.
What Is Known
K. 674 comprises two orchestral dance movements in D major dating from Paris, 1778—the period of Mozart’s stay in France that also produced major public works such as the “Paris” Symphony, K. 297 [2]. The Köchel catalogue entry identifies the work simply as “two dance movements … for orchestra,” and, crucially, the music survives only as a fragment, with the orchestration not fully transmitted in complete form [1].
In practical terms, this places K. 674 among the kinds of functional dance pieces Mozart could draft quickly while navigating Parisian musical life in 1778—work that may have been intended for a specific event or venue, though no secure occasion is documented in standard reference listings [1].
Musical Content
Because the surviving material is incomplete, a reliable, movement-by-movement description (tempo types, formal plan, and full instrumentation) cannot be given from catalogue data alone. Still, the fragment’s classification as orchestral dances in D major points toward Mozart’s characteristic “open-air” festive palette—bright string writing with likely wind/brass reinforcement typical of his public orchestral idiom in Paris that year (even if K. 674 itself does not preserve the full scoring) [1].
Sources
[1] Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, Köchel Catalogue entry for KV 674: Two dance movements in D (fragmentary survival; basic work identity and scoring designation).
[2] King’s College London, Mozart & Material Culture: contextual reference for Mozart’s Paris (1778) orchestral work K. 297 and its documented Paris performance milieu.