Draft:Mozart and Mechanical Organs

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed three works for the mechanical organ and organ clock. These pieces were commissioned by Count Joseph Deym von Stritetz [de] under the alias of “Mr. Müller”.^[1]

History

Count Deym wanted to use the first piece as a funeral mass to lament Ernst Gideon von Laudon. Mozart, seeking money, hesitantly accepted the commission.^[1] On 3 October 1790, Mozart wrote to his wife, Constanze:

I have now made up my mind to compose at once the Adagio for the clockmaker and then to slip a few ducats into the hand of my dear wife. And this I have done; but as it is a kind of composition which I detest, I have unfortunately not been able to finish it. I compose a bit of it every day—but I have to break off now and then, as I get bored. And indeed I would give the whole thing up, if I had not such an important reason to go on with it. But I still hope that I shall be able to force myself gradually to finish it.^[2]

Mozart completed these three pieces by the end of May 1791.

Works

Adagio and Allegro in F minor for a mechanical organ, K. 594
Fantasia in F minor for a Mechanical Organ, K. 608 (in Mozart's own hand, "Ein Orgelstücke für eine Uhr" [An Organ Piece for a Clock]
Andante in F for a Small Mechanical Organ, K. 616

References

External links

Adagio und Allegro in f für ein Orgelwerk: Score in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
Allegro und Andante (Fantasie in f) für eine Orgelwalze: Score in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
Andante in F für eine Orgelwalze: Score in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
Adagio and Allegro in F minor, K. 594, Fantasia in F minor, K. 608, Andante in F major, K. 616: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

[HK-1] "Mechanical Mozart!". interlude.hk. 21 October 2013.

[LoC-2] "Wolfgang Amadè Mozart's Allegro and Andante ("Fantasy") in F Minor for Mechanical Organ, K. 608 | A Guide to the Moldenhauer Archives | Articles and Essays | the Moldenhauer Archives – the Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial | Digital Collections | Library of Congress". Library of Congress.

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