thorp refers to as "the old Mozart plan" (118).
Little of note occurs in the remainder of the first movement; Grove remarks on the "prevalence of imitative progressions" (7), but otherwise the critics' only comment is that the coda is "rather long" (Apthorp 118), and Grove says of the coda that "it is an early and good example of a feature which, though not Beethoven's invention . . . was but rarely used by previous writers of Symphonies, and first became a prominent characteristic in his works" (8).
The second movement of the First Symphony, marked Andante cantabile con moto, is in F. The opening theme is brisk and pleasant, "an old and well-known favourite" according to Grove (7), expressed as a fugato (Apthorp 118). The entire movement is characterized by "continual little sallies of fun and humour" (Grove 8) reminiscent of Haydn; all in all, it is a pleasant but unremarkable second movement of a Classical symphony. The only passage of note is the timpani part which begins on C and then drops to G for eight measures (mm. 54-61). Grove poi
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