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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Eine kleine Gigue in G Major, K 574  Play

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Recorded on 10/31/2006, uploaded on 01/22/2009

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Eine kleine Gigue in G Major, K. 574         Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart                               

The Eine kleine Gigue in G Major was written in Leipzig in 1789, after Mozart was inspired to write a piece to honor the late Kapellmeister of that city - Johann Sebastian Bach.  Mozart's work contains a mix of the intervals Bach used in fugal themes and, like Bach, uses three voices.  The tonal scheme of the piece is tonic-dominant-tonic, and it also visits its parallel minor key briefly in the second section - characteristics of the Classical period.  Thus, Mozart masterfully intermingles Bach with the structures of his own time.     Junghwa Lee