Ten Variations in G major on "Our stupid Mob thinks"
Ten Variations in G major on “Our stupid Mob thinks” from Gluck's “Pilgrims from Mecca” is the title of a piano composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .
These are the ten variations for piano for two hands on a theme from Christoph Willibald Gluck's comic opera in three acts "The Pilgrims of Mecca" ( Les Pèlerins de la Mecque ou La rencontre imprévue ), written in 1764 and 1790, respectively Work composed in 1784 is listed in the Köchel directory under the number 455.
Mozart's composition is also based on the Fourth Suite for Orchestra in G major (op. 61) by Pyotr Tchaikovsky , the Mozartiana .
The work is the only piano variation by Mozart that is preserved in the autograph. The autograph was acquired at auction on July 12, 1784 at Sotheby’s (London) from the private collector Geo Kurtz ( Wavertree near Liverpool ). The previous owners are unknown. It has been in a private collection in Basel since 1957. Another, incomplete, probably earlier autograph has been lost since the end of the war in 1945, but a photocopy is preserved in the archive for photograms of musical master manuscripts in the music collection of the Austrian National Library in Vienna.
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Web links
- Ten variations in G major on “Our stupid rabble thinks” : Score and critical report in the New Mozart Edition