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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer

Funeral March in C-, K.453a

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  • Funeral March in C-, K.453a
    Key: C-
    Year: 1784
    Genre: Other Keyboard
    Pr. Instrument: Piano

This short work (16 measures) is a mock-solemn funeral march composed with the tongue-in-cheek designation "sulla morte del Sg. Maestro Contrapuncto" ("on the death of Lord Master Counterpoint"). It features a cortege-like movement with prominent dotted rhythms. In the first half Mozart writes a rule-breaking chord progression complete with some offically forbidden parallel fifths, and in the second he slips a bathos-riddled chromatic scalar figure into the melodic line.

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