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String trio. Ganz kleine Nachtmusik (German for Quite (or Very) Little Night Music), K. 648, [1] also known as Serenade in C, [2] is a composition for string trio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), written in the mid to late 1760s. It was named by the Leipzig municipal libraries, where the piece's re-discovery was announced in September ...
A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the 1955 Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it involves the romantic lives of several couples. Its title is a literal English translation of the German name for Mozart 's Serenade No. 13, K. 525, Eine kleine Nachtmusik.
double bass. Eine kleine Nachtmusik[ a ] (Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major), K. 525, is a 1787 composition for a chamber ensemble by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). The German title means "a little night music". [ b ] The work is written for an ensemble of two violins, viola, cello and double bass, but is often performed by string ...
Sonata form (also sonata-allegro form or first movement form) is a musical structure generally consisting of three main sections: an exposition, a development, and a recapitulation. It has been used widely since the middle of the 18th century (the early Classical period). While it is typically used in the first movement of multi-movement pieces ...
Eine Kleine Nichtmusik ("A Little Not Music") is a quodlibet consisting of Mozart's work Eine kleine Nachtmusik played in its entirety, along with snippets of dozens of famous tunes heard in counterpoint throughout the piece, taken from both American folk music and the classical repertoire.
Abendempfindung. " Abendempfindung an Laura ", K. 523, is a song by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dated June 24, 1787, in Vienna, written at the time of the opera Don Giovanni and Eine kleine Nachtmusik.
Serenade No. 12 (Mozart) The Serenade No. 12 for winds in C minor, K. 388/384a, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1782 or 1783. The work is sometimes called "Nachtmusik". In 1787, Mozart transcribed the work for string quintet. This transcription survives as String Quintet, K. 406/516b.
[2] [3] notes some other major works of this stage in Mozart's life: the Rondo shortly preceded the beginning of work on Don Giovanni; and instrumental pieces from 1787 include the Third and Fourth String Quintets as well as the string serenade Eine kleine Nachtmusik. No musical sketches for the Rondo survive.