Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific … Read Full Bio ↴Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works of virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. Mozart is widely regarded as among the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with his music admired for its "melodic beauty, its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture".

Born in Salzburg, then in the Holy Roman Empire and currently in Austria, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. His father took him on a grand tour of Europe and then three trips to Italy. At 17, he was a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position.

While visiting Vienna in 1781, Mozart was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He stayed in Vienna, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years there, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas. His Requiem was largely unfinished by the time of his death at the age of 35, the circumstances of which are uncertain and much mythologized.

Ein Musikalischer Spass K. 522: I. Allegro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Lyrics

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Agnus Dei Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem. Agn…
Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte Erzeugt von heißer Phantasie, In einer schwärmerischen Stund…
Ave Maria Ave, ave verum corpus natum De Maria virgine Vere passum imm…
Ave Verum Ave ave verum corpus natum de Maria Virgine Vere passum, imm…
Ave Verum Corpus K.618 Ave verum corpus, natum De Maria Virgine Vere passum, immola…
Ave verum corpus, K. 618 Ave verum corpus natum de Maria Virgine Vere passum, immolat…
Ave Verum K.618 Ave verum corpus, natum De Maria Virgine Vere passum, immola…
Batti Batti O Bel Masetto Batti, batti, o bel Masetto, La tua povera Zerlina; Starò qu…
Benedictus Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domine. Hosanna in excelsis!…

Communio Lux Aeterna SOPRANO SOLO AND CHORUS LUX eterna …
Confutatis Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis, voca me c…
Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen Tod und Verzweiflung…
Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja Stets lustig heissa hopsasa! Ic…
Die Zauberflöte K. 620 Act 2: Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen, Tod und Verzweiflung…
Die Zauberflöte: Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen, Hells Revenge cooks …
Dies Irae Dies irae Dies illa Solvet saeclum en favilla Teste david…
Domine Jesu Domine, Jesu Christe, Rex gloriae, libera animas omnium fid…
Domine Jesu Christe DOMINE Jesu Christie, Rex Gloriaee, libera …
Hostias Hostias et preces tibi, Domine laudis offerimus tu suscipe…
I. Introitus: Requiem Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine; et lux perpetua luceat ei…
III CHORUS Rex tremende majestatis, Qui salvandos salvas gratis …
III. Dies Irae CHORUS Dies irae, dies illa Solvet saeclum in favilla, Teste…
III. Sequentia: / Rex Tremendae Majestatis CHORUS Rex tremende majestatis, Qui salvandos salvas gratis …
Introitus Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, Et lux perpetua luceat ei…
Introitus Requiem Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine; et lux perpetua luceat ei…
iv HOSTIAS et preces tibi, Domine, laudis…
IV. Offertorium: / Domine Jesu Christe DOMINE Jesu Christie, Rex Gloriaee, libera …
Kyrie Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison.…
La' ci darem la mano (Don Giovanni): Là ci darem la mano, Là mi dirai di sì, Vedi…
Lacrimosa Lacrymosa dies illa, qua resurget ex favilla judicandus ho…
Laudate Laudate Dominum omnes gentes Laudate eum, omnes populi Quon…
Le Nozze di Figaro: Che soave zeffiretto Sull'aria... Che soave zeffiretto... Zeffiretto... Questa se…
Le nozze di Figaro: Cinque... dieci... venti... trenta... Cinque... dieci... venti... trenta... Trentasei... quarantat…
Lux aeterna SOPRANO SOLO AND CHORUS LUX eterna …
O Fortuna O Fortuna, velut Luna statu variabilis, semper crescis a…
Offertorium Domine Jesu DOMINE Jesu Christie, Rex Gloriaee, libera …
Offertorium Hostias HOSTIAS et preces tibi, Domine, laudis…
Offertorium: Domine Jesu DOMINE Jesu Christie, Rex Gloriaee, libera …
Porgi amor Porgi, amor, Qualche ristoro Al mio duolo A′miei sospir! O …
Porgi, amor (Le nozze di Figaro) Porgi, amor, qualche ristoro al mio duolo a'miei sospir! O …
Queen Of The Night Aria Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem herzen Tot und verzweiflung …
Recordare Recordare Jesu pie, quod sum causa tuae viae, ne me perdas…
Requiem 1. Requiem Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux…
Requiem Dies irae CHORUS Dies irae, dies illa Solvet saeclum in favilla, Teste…
Requiem in D minor K 626: 3. Sequentia: "Recordare" Recordare, Jesu pie, Quod sum causa tuae viae, Ne me perdas …
Requiem in D minor K. 626: I. Introitus: "Requiem aeternam" INTROITUS Requiem aeternam dona ets, Domine, et lux perpetu…
Requiem in D minor K.626 Dies iræ, dies illa Solvet sæclum in favilla Teste David cum…
Requiem in D Minor K.626: 1. Introitus: Requiem Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, Et lux perpetua luceat ei…
Requiem in D Minor K.626: 3. Sequentia: Lacrimosa La crimosa Dies illa Qua Re sur get est fa vi lla Iudicandus…
Requiem in D Minor K.626: 4. Offertorium: Domine Jesu Domine, Jesu Christe, Rex gloriae, rex gloriae Libera animas…
Requiem in D Minor K.626: 4. Offertorium: Hostias Hostias et preces, tibi, Domine, Laudis offerimus: Tu suscip…
Requiem Introitus Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine; et lux perpetua luceat ei…
Requiem Rex Tremendae Majestatis CHORUS Rex tremende majestatis, Qui salvandos salvas gratis …
Requiem%3A Dies irae CHORUS Dies irae, dies illa Solvet saeclum in favilla, Teste…
Requiem, Dies irae Dies iræ, dies illa Solvet sæclum en favilla Teste davidcum …
Requiem: Agnus Dei CHORUS AGNUS DEI, qui tollis peccata …
Requiem: Dies irae Dies iræ, dies illa Solvet sæclum en favilla Teste davidcum …
Requiem: Domine Jesu DOMINE Jesu Christie, Rex Gloriaee, libera …
Requiem: Introitus: Requiem Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine; et lux perpetua luceat ei…
Requiem: IV. Offertorium: Domine Jesu Christe DOMINE Jesu Christie, Rex Gloriaee, libera …
Requiem: Lacrimosa Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei…
Requiem: Requiem Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine; et lux perpetua luceat ei…
Requiem: Rex tremendae CHORUS Rex tremende majestatis, Qui salvandos salvas gratis …
Requiem: VII. Agnus Dei Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi Dona eis requiem sempite…
Requiem: VIII. Communio: Lux aeterna SOPRANO SOLO AND CHORUS LUX eterna …
Rex Tremendae Rex tremandae maiestatis, qui salvandos salvas gratis, sal…
Rex Tremendae Majestatis CHORUS Rex tremende majestatis, Qui salvandos salvas gratis …
Ridente la calma K.152 Ridente la calma nell′alma si desti Né resti più segno di…
Sanctus Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth! Pleni sunt…
Sequentia Dies Irae CHORUS Dies irae, dies illa Solvet saeclum in favilla, Teste…
Sequentia Rex tremendae CHORUS Rex tremende majestatis, Qui salvandos salvas gratis …
Sequentia%3A Dies Irae CHORUS Dies irae, dies illa Solvet saeclum in favilla, Teste…
Time To Say Goodbye cutumn roams silently through the streets, You'll be gone, a…
Tuba Mirum Tuba mirum spargens sonum per sepulchra regionum, coget om…
Turkish March Issa Issa Issa Issa Issa Issa Issa Issa Issa Issa Issa Issa …
V. Sanctus SANCTUS, Domine Deus Sabaoth. Pleni sunt …
VII. Agnus Dei Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem Agnus…
VII. Communio: Lux aeterna SOPRANO SOLO AND CHORUS LUX eterna …

Voi che sapete che cosa è amor Voi che sapete Che cosa è amor, Donne, vedete S′io l'ho nel …

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Blackadder125

8y↑115

I love the part from 15:40 on where the piece suddenly decides it's the 17th century and then the violinist baroques out so hard he breaks a string.

31415equalspi

8y↑96

He can play with a baroquen string

Meow Miao

5y↑1

Oh gosh... no This is such a genius pun

Dat Mo0se

5y↑6

You mean he baroque his string?

supermarc45

@31415equalspi xD

Douglas Barrow

Here I am giggling like a schoolgirl.

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Giuseppe LoGiurato

8y↑82

One of my favorites! A great insight into Mozart's personality and humor. "Some Musical Fun" indeed! I can picture him laughing as he indulged in writing this thing. It's a very SILLY piece of music; it reminds me of a kid who's had way too much sugar, running in circles and can't even think straight (or an adult who's had way too much alcohol and keeps repeating himself and hiccuping and forgetting what he's talking about!).

Mark Senpai

8y↑2

+Joseph LoGiurato cuse me can u tell me whats funny about this coz i dont get it .

Giuseppe LoGiurato

8y↑15

+Mark Senpai it's tough to explain the joke with words, but it's as if someone has taken the score to a normal Mozart piece, cut it into pieces, and glued it back together all jumbled up and upside down... add in all the "wrong" notes and strange key changes, and we've got a very goofy piece of music here... (it's almost like a "mad libs" book; remember those?)
...hope that helps! :-)

Mark Senpai

8y↑3

Joseph LoGiurato oh yea haha tnx im satisfied now

xXjules13Xx

7y↑3

The french horns at 5:39 sound like they've had a bit too much to drink!

Thomas

39w

@Giuseppe LoGiurato I know this is a 7 year old comment, but did you even listen to it? He's parodying lesser composers. Obviously its going to have aspects of Mozart's music meshed in there, but that isn't why its supposed to be funny.

Ryujin

4y↑10

Still sounds better than anything I could ever compose

Paulo Benith

9y↑143

Even being a joke, it's still great!

Apostolis Moschopoulos

5y↑1

you kidding, right?

Samuel Lourenço

5y↑3

Nah! There is not much harmony in this. And it is far more repetitive than Beethoven. And quite disturbing in some parts.

theExcaliburOne

3y↑5

@Samuel Lourenço don’t compare this to Beethoven, it’s cruel

Jarek Wrzosek

2y↑1

Them stanky horns tho...😂

lovelemac

6y↑17

Mozart the composer had a Starling he kept for three years, and was very impressed with its ability to sing along with him playing and composing, when it died, he gave it a full funeral and dedicated a piece to the bird called 'A musical joke'.

AllComposersbyNumbers

The theme of the finale to his 17th piano concerto was inspired by his Starling's twitter. There's also a supposed funeral march for mechanical organ by Mozart for the birds funeral. He'd already composed two works for mechanical organ. This piece was lost.

Mathieu Guillet

5y↑18

Mozart was so good that his deliberately poor music is vastly superior to most of the modern greats.

Dan Brooks

9y↑218

I think the horns are the funniest part. But this whole piece is absolutely hilarious. (Another funny this is, I've actually heard worse pieces that weren't a joke.)

Royce Zaro

8y↑4

+Dan Brooks Could you point one out?

Greg deGiere

8y↑18

I can. "All You Need is Love."

CoderatheGreat

6y↑5

Anything by Nickelback really.

Dan Brooks

6y↑8

Pretty much anything on the radio today. But yeah I meant classical when I wrote that. I'm not sure exactly what pieces they were, but I've heard some stuff that just wasn't right, you know?

Dan Brooks

6y↑9

That's what they say at the end of the Nickelback concert. "I want my nickel back."

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Eric Hoffmann

9y↑4

I'd love to see Mozart's "Posthorn" Serenade added to this category. His serenades and divertimentos are incomperable, should be a long playlist. :)

VladislavGomulka

11y↑6

Thank you. Mozart was unable to write bad music even when he wanted to do so, so even his obvious musical criticism of contemporaries nevertheless contains nice melodies.

Eduardo Porzecanski

11y↑3

Esto no es una broma musical,es una Obra de Arte de un Genio.Su segundo mov,menuetto et trio,me encanta.Tengo 69 anios de edad,cada dia Mozart es mas Grande!!!.-

BradSumner

5y↑4

I used to love this piece when I was a little boy and had a recording of it. It made me feel really bad years later when I learned what the word Spass meant. Now it is a guilty pleasure - I still enjoy it, but in a different way I suppose

J. A. Ortiz - Compositor

5y↑32

2:48 this part is so beautiful and the truth is that Mozart was joking in the entire work. That is so cruel for me as a composer. All my music is Ein Musikalischer Spaß 😅

Jakob Skivild

38w

Haha, it's so true!!

Jim Dubya

10y↑84

This is funny. I'm glad I stumbled upon this today. I suspect that there were some musicians who wanted to shoot Mozart for making their lives so difficult with his serious compositions. Then to come out with something like this that intentionally makes them look bad... hilarious.

DBSeamz

3y↑3

Have you seen the movie Amadeus? I know the plot isn't accurate to history but the characterization seems pretty spot on. This piece and your comment remind me of the party scene where the double sided mask is first seen.

R C

2y↑1

Bravo Mozart! Had me in tears! 😎

Harpie84

4y↑4

I played this in college for a friend’s senior recital. We had a lot of fun rehearsing but darn hard to keep a straight face.

John Leonard Music

12y↑5

I wouldn't call somebody stupid for taking this work seriously. We should be allowed to take it however we please. I can't help but admire some of the things Mozart tried here, even if none of it was meant to be even remotely serious. Let's just take it as we take it.

Jehu Rodriguez

Esta música me ha fascinado desde el vientre de mi bendita madre.

Max

8y↑107

"the hornist grabbing the wrong crook"
How I feel when I start transposing into the wrong key when I think "Re" is E, not D.

Also, on one of the Mozart horn concertos, he labeled the orchestra's tempo "Allegro" and the horn's tempo "Andante" because horns always are too slow.

Thanks, Mozart.

Katherine Murphy

3y↑3

I highly recommend the Mozart biography Reign of Love by Jan Swafford. In it, he gives a full picture of Mozart's life, personality, and all of the events that shaped him as a composer. There are many stories about him that I didn't know previously, even as a professional musician. One happened when he was seven when he had just started learning to play violin. His father wrote of a day when he had friends over to play chamber music. Young Mozart wanted to play too, but became very upset when his dad refused to let him. Eventually the second violinist invited him to play alongside, neither he nor his father expecting him to actually be able to play. By the end, he was holding his own, his dad was stunned, and Mozart, as a child, essentially said, "What's the big deal? Anyone can play the second violin part." 😂

murasaki rin

4y↑55

Back when I was in highschool my band class had the string instruments in it also, and one day the band teacher bet us we couldn't play this. It was glorious, all of us spent months after school together behind (or so we thought) the teachers back to learn this. On April fools day my class had convinced the principal to hold "an emergency assembly". It was literally just us and the teacher waiting up on this like makeshift stage thing. Once everyone was sitting confused we just burst out playing this before the music teacher could even turn around. It was bad but we were all having fun and some of us even put on silly "period appropriate" costumes (mostly the strings if I'm honest). The teacher admitted defeat with a huge smile, so we made him dress as a cross dressing Mozart for our next band pep rally for the football team that was in a few weeks. Ah I miss those days, no one cared about perfecting it, we were all just having fun and a good laugh.

abrilazul

8y↑3

Lo mejor, música que me relaja y me ánima! !!

Julia Pikalova

1y↑3

Ingenious! Hilarious!! I don't remember when I laughed that much, and certainly not when listening to the classical music😄🤣😂😅🙃 Thank you, dear Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart!

Marianne Goodland

2y↑3

When I was in college, I was asked to be in the string quartet for this piece for a friend's senior recital. We had to abandon it because no one could play it all the way through without cracking up. Different times.

Simon Kawasaki

6y↑9

13:28 I love how you keep thinking it’s about to end, but it keeps going

Ferrariman601

11y↑3

I'd be really curious to see how this piece would sound had it its "flaws" ironed out. I mean, there really are some very charming passages in here.

Simon Kawasaki

6y↑77

Fun fact: Mozart’s student wrote the awful fugue in the last movement, without meaning for it to be so bad, which Mozart put in this piece.

Sax and Relax

4y↑27

imagine writing a bad fugue as a student and hundreds of years later people are still laughing at you XD

Paul Chapman

4y↑12

Sax and Relax if people remembered my awful school projects but didn’t remember my name, I wouldn’t mind so much.

theExcaliburOne

3y↑2

That’s just… so cruel

G. Lu

7y↑209

Mozart: "I shall write satirical music not meant to be taken seriously!"
Modern musicians: "Eh? It sounds alright."

Dan Brooks

6y↑16

Exactly. I've heard songs on the radio where the guitarist (apparently) didn't even realize that he played the wrong chord. And I guess the producer didn't either, since it got recorded and released.

Dan Brooks

5y↑3

miN3KraTpR0 Yeah like for instance a power chord half a step down from the key chord when it should have been a dominant chord with a third in the bass string. Or a minor chord when the melody was major or vice versa, etc.

Nahuel

5y↑19

@Dan Brooks "wrong chord"

lawrence wei

Tautology

Hectic Hive

4y↑2

Yeah what the hell! I can’t even understand what’s wrong with it lmao. I feel like such an idiot...

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Лена Шестакова

3y↑1

Чудесная ...

Frank MacDulligan

10y↑10

La imagen de "enfant terrible" y bromista del genial Mozart, nos lo demuestra en esta obra, "Una broma musical", de la que llegaron a decir, músicos de la corte austriaca, que era una pena estropear esta bella partitura partitura, con disonancias, solo por un infantil capricho del compositor. Mozart era tan capaz musicalmente, que podía permitirse el lujo de reírse de su música y, por supuesto, de la de otros colegas.

Antologías de Carlos.

4y↑2

Hermoso canal para hoir a este genio de la música universal.

Screamy Memey

6y↑83

a finely aged meme

Sax and Relax

4y↑3

aged like wine

Νεκτάριος Χούμος

4y↑2

Masterpiece!!!

Alicia Compaviña

8y↑1

me encanta gracias Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Stan Obirek

6y↑1

Mozart could make a fortune writing pieces like this one.

Minecraft_Dreng

1y↑1

Mozart's deliberate parody of poor composition reminds me of some of my own troubles with writing a satisfying melody, actually! Some of the ways the phrasing goes nowhere, I hear and am like "this is what it sounds like when I try to write music" - I should study what is "wrong" here to understand what to improve, and this is a well known example. 0:48 to 0:57 is very remniscent of my songwriting. The individual parts sound nice but they don't flow together.

Also, Mozart doing a "but I failed music theory" meme 250 years early!

i cant think of a creative name atm

2:52 - 2:59 Damn, that sounds cool. The horns are badass.

Megan McGowan

8y↑62

Of course this doesn't sound so funny to us in our time, especially if you aren't a musician who has been exposed to much music of this period-- but back in Mozart's day, a lot of this was pretty cutting-edge stuff. Polytonic music was something very new in his day, and much of the humor is in the technique, which is lost on those folks who aren't well-versed in classical music or those who grew up with modern music where certain musical techniques that didn't exist in Mozart's day have become mainstream. Of course the ending is obviously a "deliberate fail". But some of the other more subtle "errors" are easily overlooked by those who are used to hearing such techniques as acceptable in the mainstream. Music evolves and changes, and back in those days it hadn't evolved to the point where these "acceptable-today" passages were considered as good music. So pretend that you are in the 18th Century... listen to "good" examples of that period's music, then listen to this. You'll have a better understanding of the humor of this piece. :)

Jackson Witmer

8y↑5

For more polytonal oddities predating Mozart, try Rebel or Biber. There are a few shocking works.

Dan Brooks

6y↑4

Basically, listen to ANYTHING else Mozart wrote, and then listen to this. lol

anony moose

The song is a fart joke.

theExcaliburOne

3y↑1

@anony moose listen to the lick

Fred Haight

12y↑2

Mozart's serious genius, was often mingled with his humorous genius! That's why we can laugh at the clumsiness of this work-where the composer is always at loss what to do next-yet love it; because we are hearing Mozart's brilliant satire at the same time! It's not just one thing we are listening to! Both ideas are in the mind, not the ear. As for those humorless scholars, who think it is serious, and even anticipated polytonality (which Mozart would have hated), read Rabelais, and try Ex-lax!

An Equalist

9y↑12

apart from the inevitable enjoyment of the music, I'm very happy about the extended information, thanks very much for both!

Meister Pumuckl

11y↑1

very delicate piece for the two horns! good job!

mariann0071

Olyan tökéletes!

Sayaka Hatsuno

8y↑5

Beautiful and amazing music (irony)! Thank you Mozart >.<

sleepwalker estate

11y↑4

the attention spans of people back in the day always amazes me. there's no way i'd be able to compose 21 minutes worth of music. much less for a joke!

Ian Lin

3y↑1

20:58 Excellent! Everybody is definitely in the same key! (I know that's how it was written in the score)

markusboyd3

11y↑1

The cadential approach in the second movement is absolutely hilarious!

acempdc

what time?

akitten

11y

That ending gets me every time.

Shasta Michaels

4y↑3

Omg.....love this and the very end is PERFECT!! BRAVO!!! LMAO!!

Neshka Virdure

LOVE this😊!!!

Javier Rodriguez

5y↑1

Maravillozo estruendo musical!

クランSMILE

6y↑3

The cadenza in the adagio is hilarious

17:00 Presto (hilarious too)

nekoeko500

2y↑1

In the age of the algorithm and online music providers, this sounds like a masterpiece. We are heading straight towards musical idiocracy

Athanos

52w

13:39 for like a minute the piece is genuinely good, Mozart probably realized that even poor composers had the occasional stroke of inspiration

Cynda

5y↑20

Read "Mozart's Starling" by Haupt, and the mystery is solved. K 522 is a tribute to his pet bird which had died shortly before he wrote it.The composition mimics the 4 different types of bird song and imitative noises that a starling is capable of learning depending on its own unique environment. Voila!

richard tough

4y↑2

It could play the viola! Wow! 😂

peter berbee

3y↑1

Its a really interesting book, I would recommend for animal and music lovers. This music does sound to me like how some birds vocalise. Its an illuminating book regarding Mozarts strong relationship with his pet starling.

Pierre Otzenberger

11y↑1

We saw that Mozart is a genius, even when he tried to compose as worst as possible

Jean-Edouard Ahmedozzi

2y↑1

I would be spectacularly proud to have composed this. I would show off like crazy.

Of course, I'm a joke of a composer myself.

Geraldo Jorge Dalmaschio

4y↑1

Mozart is brilliant even when he wants to be mediocre..

theExcaliburOne

It’s not very good

brian thompson

6y↑1

I believe this was written right around the same time as “eine kleine nacht music” k525. If you think about it, another very unusual piece. Very simple by his standards. And unusual instrument combo. Possibly one is “poorly” written (counterpoint, timing, harmonies) the other is “correctly” written, yet simple

Anna Elizabeth I

6y↑9

For him it was just for fun. That's the pure genius.

RainbowPoptart

11y↑2

Am4d3usM0z4rt, I really like your videos of the whole pieces together like this, but it's a pain sometime to have to fish for the different movements. Can you start marking the transition between movements so it will save all of us sometime :) Thanks!

SI's channel

11y

A majestic final!:)

RainbowPoptart

11y

This music is so 'terribly' good

Fred Haight

12y↑3

Thanks to Am for the background info. I suspect audiences of Mozart's time were rolling in the aisles with laughter. Today we are removed from the culture, and laymen could easily mistake most of it for serious music. Yet, the score consists of unimaginative themes, cliches badly strung together, drastic modulations to nowhere, attempts at building tension for a recapitulation that actually lose it, and devices such as triplets brought in as a substitute for actual variation or development...

William C

3y↑1

What a racket! This fellow's musical compositions will die with him!

George Ireland

11y↑1

this gets me every time.

Dmitri Shostakovich

4y↑4

By God Mozart truly is a God, even his shitty pieces are amazing

vesteel

7y↑13

14:43 it suddenly went from Classical to baroque

Michael Emory

48w

Each moment is so self-satisfied.

Cristina Schlack

7y↑1

me relaje mucho

Am4d3usM0z4rt

12y↑19

Because Mozart wrote it as a parody of bad composers.

passengersplace

6y↑2

The random plucked note at the end of the butchered scale is hilarious.

ivana galantini

meraviglioso

David Rodríguez Rey

Nice!!! This is a present for me. Thanks!!! 😘🇪🇦🙏💘

AllComposersbyNumbers

2y↑1

This work is performed by the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields' Chamber Ensemble

Emerson Oliveira

12y↑1

Genial.

Matthias Platz

7y↑2

So many phrases that take forever to wind up going nowhere, combined with changes out of the blue. Add in some very heavy handed harmonies, exacerbated by the odd instrumentation, and you have a fun joke indeed. I love all the trolling with the false resolutions in the third movement. For some real fun, check out Nikolaus Harnoncourt's rendition with the Vienna Concentus Musicus, especially if you like the French Horn parts!

Simon Kawasaki

Matthias Platz I agree. Hear the pretty Austrian motif in 13:57? Goes nowhere. Melody is completely changed and goes in another direction.

RainbowPoptart

11y↑11

I really did laugh at the pizzicato at around 16:25! ^^

Βαγγέλης Γιανν.

5y↑1

Never heard this before!!!Amazing!

Giuseppe LoGiurato

3y↑2

Ahh... I can feel the lice crawling between my scalp and my wig... I can only listen to this every once in awhile, and for some reason, I get the "joke"; it's obviously all upside-down and backwards, with an Indiana Jones-style face-melting scene included in each part for the philistines who were busy waiting popcorn, but... I'm always so alienated when I play it for my friends, and they say, "why is this funny to you? It sounds good to us!" I could go mad!

theExcaliburOne

Yea same

Remi Vézina

9y↑10

you know it's him because it's so good, so his style

antonia Antonia belen mas.

10y↑3

MOZART ,POR SIEMPRE,!!!!.TE HACE CREER EN LO DIVINO ,""!!!

Liane Schinke

10y

Muito bom ! Gracias :))

Jacob Klotzbach

The lone note at 16:30 😂

Malik Chaney

10y

I mean, if you can get past the clunky, uneven phrases (which is easier for us now than it would have been to people of the day) the first movement seems like it would be some decent background music, albeit still incredibly undistinguished.

Lad Steel

4y↑1

Grande Musica Del Grande Genio, W.A.Mozart,🇦🇹Capolavoro in tutto e Mondiale🌏Grande Musica, Geniale ale, Maestosa, e Meraviglia,🇦🇹😀💛👍💪💪👏👏🙌🤚✌️✌️💯+💯=Mozart,🇦🇹🎹🎶🎼🎵🎶🎼🎻🎵🎶🥁🎶🎭🥇🏆🎹🎹🎶🎻

Classical Music Lover

4y↑1

From 17:01, some of the older folk will recognise this from the Horse Of The Year Show

Let's Be Unique!

16:34 this is where Mozart finally lost his mind while composing

Kantima Somnongbua

5y↑1

Epic ending 😂

Jackson D. Begley

7y↑1

The only time you would hear trilling horns these days are in Action and Horror movie scores.

brian thompson

6y↑1

Totally lovely. Full of great ideas. Possibly a better translation would be “having fun with music” “playing with music” “or “trying out ideas that are fun and unusual” - because... why the hell not? Calling it a “joke” seems misleading. I love listening to this piece. Wish players didnt over “buffoon” the piece.

theExcaliburOne

He literally called this a joke himself, it was a parody of bad composers. It’s full of terrible counterpoint, and too much repetition, not to mention the part where the horn puts in the wrong crook, and of course the ending. While it would be nice to think of this as a serious piece, there’s no way Mozart would ever write something like this seriously. If he needed to try out new ideas he would do it in his head

Paul Chapman

@theExcaliburOne He called it “Ein Musikalischer Spaß,” and “Spaß” is more accurately translated as “fun” than “joke.”

riverrun

definitely nailing that repetitive part

brian thompson

6y↑1

This one is better. Almost modern. Hauntingly beautiful. And a gem, in that it shows how much potential he had to expand musical vocabulary- if he had the time

theExcaliburOne

This piece isn’t very good, by the conventional definitions of the word at least

Paul A

13 to 18 minutes it's not even that bad to my simple ear.

neblitude

6y↑1

Mozart had a Starling he kept for three years, and was very impressed with its ability to sing along with him playing and composing. When it died, he gave it a full funeral and supposedly dedicated this piece to it.

Wushy

12y

The conclusion of the piece is hilarious. You can just hear Mozart saying "Bad composers suuuuck :)".

temul

8y↑10

I laughed so hard xD

thesir27

7y↑1

Think of it as a Tim & Eric sketch but with classical music.

DAFORCEFilms

11y

It's like classical dubstep.

Eric Nicholson

9y↑36

There is also the theory that he uses some of the tunes his pet starling sang!

Leslie Rogers

4y↑3

Eric Nicholson Yes. read “Mozart’s Starling.” Great read.

Erika Fischer

genau !

Nick Johnson

11y↑1

It's also a parody of musician and copyist errors. Most notably the second movement, the violins seem to "struggle" finding the correct pitches in the upper registers and of course the last note of the finale...I find it hysterical...lol