The Minuet in F is a keyboard work, K. 1d, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on December 16, 1761 in Salzburg. It is part of a group of keyboard works found in Nannerl's Music Book. An extremely short piece (just 30 seconds long), it was likely notated by his father, Leopold Mozart, since Wolfgang was six years old at the time.
It was written for the harpsichord and is hence usually performed on the harpsichord, though other keyboard instruments may be used. This minuet is in Mozart's first collection of works, and his first extant piece in minuet form. As a minuet it is, by definition, stately in feel and written in 3/4 time. It is clearly influenced by the work of Johann Sebastian Bach, and could even be described as late Baroque in style.
It comprises of several phrases each beginning with chords, after which broken chords and triplets are used.
Mozart was especially proud of his Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat Major (K. 452) from 1784.
Mozart deepens the dramatic evocation of the demonic by foreshadowing this D-minor music at the beginning of the overture to the opera, and throughout the opera he associates references to Don Giovanni’s slaying of the Commendatore (whose statue is later the stone guest) with ominous references to the key.
Mozart is one of the most universal of composers and one of the greatest geniuses of Western civilization.
Feeds |
Contact