Serenade in E flat major K. 375 for 2 clarinets, 2 horns and 2 bassoons

Whereas, in 1781, the day of his birthday, Mozart was about to go to bed, he suddenly heard familiar sounds: six musicians who, two weeks before, had created his Serenade in E flat major and which he had described as "poor buggers but who can not get enough of their wind instruments" had gathered in his yard to play his own serenade. Officially composed for Therese Hickel, this music was in fact mainly intended to impress Emperor Joseph II, whose "Kammermusikus", the conductor of chamber music, often frequented Therese's home. "That's why I also wrote it a little wisely," says Mozart. Has it served him? A few years later in any case, Mozart will be appointed by Joseph II composer of the Court._