Kleiner Trauermarsch, K. 453a
1784 piano composition by W. A. Mozart
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"Kleiner Trauermarsch" ("Little Funeral March") in C minor, K. 453a, is a keyboard work composed in 1784 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, written in the notebook of his student Barbara Ployer.
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The piece is subtitled Marche funebre del Sigr Maestro Contrappunto (Funeral March for Mr. Master Counterpoint); Mozart's grotesque exaggeration of conventional features of funeral marches mark it as a humorous parody.[1] It consists of two sections of eight bars each, both repeated, and has no counterpoint. A performance takes about two minutes.[2]
It was first published in 1930. The autograph has been lost in 1945.
