Eine Kleine Gigue in G, K. 574
Gigue in G major
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, but it is in fact very close to Handel's Gigue from the Suite No. 8 in F minor, HWV 433.[1]
The gigue consists of only 38 bars and is written in 6/8 time.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky based the opening movement of his Mozartiana orchestral suite on this work.
References
- ↑ Fellerer, Karl Gustav. "Mozart und Händel" in Mozart-Jahrbuch 1953, Salzburg 1954, pp. 47–55
Sources
- Mozart's Piano Music by William Kinderman, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780195100679
- Robins, Brian. Gigue for piano in G major ("Eine kleine Gigue"), K. 574 at AllMusic. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
External links
- Gigue in G: Score and critical report (German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
- Gigue in G major, K. 574: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
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