After what must have been a most convivial lunch party with Herr Engel the Court Organist in Leipzig and his family on16 May 1789, Mozart dashed off this, extraordinary piece into their family album.
J S Bach had been the most significant musical presence in Leipzig for over quarter of a century in an earlier era.
The Gigue (Jig) is an energetic boisterous dance often the final movement of his Keyboard Suites and his Gigue Fugue for organ is a good humored spirited piece.
Mozart's Gigue is a delightful and apt memento. Its thirteen note theme (Subject) uses all twelve pitches:( notes 3-4 is an octave leap on G). It is angular, even a bit zany as it barrels cheerfully along offering no mean challenge to play!. nc
21 июн 2018
