Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 - 5 December 1791) was one of the most influential, popular and prolific composers of the classical period. A child prodigy, from an early age he began composing over 600 works, including some of the most famous pieces of symphonic, chamber, operatic, and choral music.
1.Eine Kleine Gigue in G major, K.574. Leipzig, 16 May 1789
Ingrid Haebler, piano
2. Eine Kleine Gigue arranged by Peter I. Tchaikovsky; Mozartiana, Orchestral Suite No. 4, Op. 61 first movement (1887)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Neville Marriner
Kleine Gigue in G major, K. 574, is a composition for solo piano by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during his stay in Leipzig. It is dated 16 May 1789, the day before he left Leipzig. It was directly written into the notebook of Leipzig court organist Karl Immanuel Engel. It is often cited as a tribute by Mozart to J. S. Bach, although many scholars have likened it to Handel's Gigue from the Suite No. 8 in F minor, HWV 433. In fact, the subject of the gigue bears a marked similarity to the subject of J. S. Bach's B minor fugue no. 24 [de] from Book 1 of Das Wohltemperierte Klavier. Mozart has changed the tempo from Largo to Allegro deciso and the time signature from common time to 6
8 but the similarity between the two is unmistakable.
The gigue consists of only 38 bars and is written in 6/8 time. The bass line in the last four bars of the first half, and its transposed repetition in the second half before the coda, are notable for including all tones of the chromatic scale. However they are not tone rows as some tones are repeated.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky based the opening movement of his Mozartiana orchestral suite on this work.
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