Gallimathias musicum
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Gallimathias musicum (also spelled Galimathias musicum) in D major, K. 32, is a quodlibet composed in March 1766 by the ten-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during his grand tour of Europe. It was first performed at The Hague on 11 March 1766. A typical performance of this piece lasts twenty minutes.
Instrumentation and structure
[edit]The work is scored for two oboes, two horns in D (and C and F), bassoon, mainly colla parte with double bass, harpsichord and strings, and consists of seventeen movements:
- Molto allegro
- Andante in D minor
- Allegro
- Pastorella in G major
- Allegro
- Allegretto in A major
- Allegro
- Molto adagio in G major
- Allegro in C major
- Largo in D minor
- Allegro
- Andante in F major
- Allegro in E-flat major (harpsichord solo)
- Menuet in F major
- Adagio in D minor
- Presto
- Fugue in F major
A galimatias is a term for nonsense, gobbledygook, a hodgepdge. Not all instruments feature in every movement. No. 8 contains the lyrics, Eitelkeit! Eitelkeit! Ewig's Verderben! Wenn all's versoffen ist, gibts nichts zu erben. [Vanity! Vanity! Eternal ruin! When everything is boozed away, no inheritance is left.], but no singing voice is specified.
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Gallimathias musicum: Score in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
- Gallimathias musicum, K. 32: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- Audio on YouTube, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, conducted by János Rolla
