Conferences organized by the Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg inevitably serve as a kind of touchstone: one tends to view the programme as a representative muster of international Mozart scholarship. Since on this occasion the organizers explicitly devoted part of the event to analysis (broadly understood as ‘scholarly work interpretation’), the October 2014 snapshot proved especially rich in insights, suggesting that the tools recently developed for the analysis of ‘galant style’ have much to offer for Mozart scholars, while ‘old-school’ source research still bears its fruits as well.