A Musical Joke
work by Mozart
Also known as: “Ein musikalischer Spass”
Learn about this topic in these articles:
discussed in biography
- In Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: From Figaro to Don Giovanni
…note: the Musikalischer Spass (Musical Joke), a good-humoured parody of bad music, in a vein Leopold would have liked (it was thought to have been provoked by his death until it was found that it was begun much earlier); Eine kleine Nachtmusik, the exquisite and much-loved serenade, probably intended…
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parodies
- In parody
Mozart’s Ein musikalischer Spass (A Musical Joke; K. 522, 1787), deliberately violates any number of technical conventions, concluding with glaringly “wrong” notes; the endless, rapid repetitions of the word amen in Hector Berlioz’ oratorio L’Enfance du Christ (The Childhood of Christ; Opus 25, 1854) clearly poke fun at the…
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