W. A. Mozart - KV 32 - Galimathias musicum in D major

The "quodlibet" is set in 17 movements:
1. Molto allegro (0:00)
2. Andante (0:51)
3. Allegro (3:23)
4. Pastorella (4:02)
5. Allegro (6:10)
6. Allegretto (7:02)
7. Allegro (8:43)
8. Coro (Molto adagio) Eitelkeit! (9:50)
9. Allegro (12:04)
10. Adagio (12:51)
11. Molto allegro (13:32)
12. Andante (14:16)
13. Allegro (15:03)
14. Menuet (16:01)
15. Adagio (18:10)
16. Presto (19:11)
17. Fuga (19:41)
Composed in The Hague in March 1766 for the festivities around the installation of the Prince of Orange.
Performers: Ars Antiqua Austria, orchestra, conducted by Gunar Letzbor.

[@KrisKeyes]

The Lydian mode in the Pastorella sounds so beautifully strange.

[@1janak362]

Even though this piece is based on existing melodies and he had help from his father, this is quite an achievement for a ten year old. Nobody like him today.

[@psalm2764]

Why would he have "had help from his father"? This is a cheap lie.

[@1janak362]

@@tomvanhengelo3002 Not yet but I will. Thanks.

[@psalm2764]

@@tomvanhengelo3002 To know the truth, you must accept it. Mozart had perfect pitch at the age of 4, at which time he was already beginning to write symphonies and play the violin along with the piano. Mozart was not of this world, and those who are cannot accept this reality. That is why he was murdered in cold blood and that is why you reject the truth.

[@psalm2764]

@@tomvanhengelo3002 If his father could have written the operas, he would have done so before Wolfgang was born. But Leopold wrote his Violin-Schule instead. If Wolfgang were not talented and gifted himself, (and his sister as well), their parents would not have risked life and limb and financial stress to drag their children across Europe. You are not thinking straight. The whole point of the "tour" was to prove that God had created a Wonder in Wolfgang.

[@psalm2764]

@@tomvanhengelo3002 you dare to lie in the face of so much documentation.

[@tkbewunderin79]

Wunderbare Fassung! Toll das Orchester und die Knaben, ich liebe sie!!!

[@yairgil4250]

Magic. And as a boy he even composed a fugue as the last movement... Great performance, on period instruments. i have this CD, it is coupled with Grab music, funeral vocal music which is also a magic by itself...

[@reneblom2160]

Young Mozart seems to have taken some inspiration with him from England back to the Netherlands. Certain movements from this "Quodlibet" sound almost Handelian in style (No. 5, 6, & 7)

[@IntegrativeLifeSystem]

Mmjm SC c

[@christonchua5188]

The theme for the Fuga section is on "William van Nassau". He wrote variations for it too, K.25.

[@minikey1692]

When I realized this had 17 movements I got confused! Beautiful song K. 32 he was 10!

[@psalm2764]

Listen to his opera Apollo y Hyazinthus. It is gorgeous.

[@minikey1692]

@@psalm2764 You’re not wrong, a true masterpiece of song

[@coreylapinas1000]

Wow, I thought this was Sibelius when I first heard part of it.

[@Hermes1548]

My boy knows in this his eighth year what one would expect in a man of forty.--Leopold Mozart, 8 June 1764, two years before this piece were composed.

[@nevermore5375]

Ricardo Mena ? What do you want to say by this????

[@IrizarryBrandon]

Ricardo Mena Yes, but this with a little help from the author of that quote!

[@Hermes1548]

Indeed, Brandon. The father was behind, as we know from Hermann Abert. Very well said!

[@MaxwellKaye]

The sad thing is, his boy never got to forty.

[@jordanaug81]

Maxwell Kaye 35 Mozart years=100 lifetimes of everyone else. Being an anomaly that only comes around one in a million times, 35 years was a miracle enough.

[@deliaplesca7759]

..IT s really MOZART..? 👑💝💫Anyway, .IT'S BEAUTIFUL 🌠

[@vcsgoru4353]

Like vivaldi

[@nottinghillad]

Sounds like it was nearly all composed by Leopold. This is not Wolfgang Mozart's balance, style and perspicacity - even at 10 years old. Most of it is just too noisy for Wolfgang

[@Ivan_1791]

That doesn't sound like Mozart.

[@RequiemAeternam01]

The quodlibet was actually a reasonably popular form of composition during the early to mid 18th century. Due to the fact that, in most cases, it included popular folk tunes that the audience would usually be familiar with, it allowed the listeners to enjoy the music even more.