David Fenton wrote:
"These weren't symphonies. They were opera overtures. While those were
also often given the designation "sinfonia," the genre conventions
were completely different than the ones Beethoven was operating
within when he wrote the Ninth."
All I think Mr. Zaslaw was saying that there was some indications of choral music being used in Sinfonias/Overtures before Beethoven. I don't think he was making some huge, big assertion that what Mozart did in K. 111a, was akin to what Beethoven did with the 9th Symphony.
Thanks,
K. P. Clow
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