Instrumentation: 2 cor pr; 2ob 2cor 2vn 2va vc/b

The present work, according to the wrapper of a copy preserved in the Oettingen-Wallerstein music collection under the shelfmark D-HR III 4 1 / 2 4? 282, was composed by Hoffmeister for “Messieurs Nagel et Zwierzina, Musiciens de la Cour de son alte[sse le Prince] de Palm”; the annotation suggests that the work was composed on 17 December 1792 but this is more likely to represent an acquisition date since both Joseph Nagel (1751/52–1802) and Fr...