The G natural minor scale is: Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with accidentals as necessary.

In the Classical period, symphonies in G minor almost always used four horns, two in G and two in B♭ alto.

[2] Another convention of G minor symphonies observed in Mozart's No.

40 was the choice of E-flat major, the subdominant of the relative major B♭, for the slow movement, with other examples including Joseph Haydn's No.

39 and Johann Baptist Wanhal's G minor symphony from before 1771.