Structure
Mozartiana is in four movements and lasts approximately 20 minutes.
- Gigue. Allegro (G major)
- After the Little Gigue for piano, K. 574.
- Menuet. Moderato (D major)
- After the Minuet for piano, K. 355.
- Preghiera. Andante ma non tanto (B-flat major)
- After Franz Liszt's piano transcription of the Ave verum corpus, K. 618. (In 1862 Liszt wrote a piano transcription combining Gregorio Allegri's Miserere and Mozart's Ave verum corpus, published as "À la Chapelle Sixtine" (S.461). Tchaikovsky orchestrated only the part of this work that had been based on Mozart.)
- Thème et variations. Allegro giusto (G major)
- After the piano Variations on a Theme by Gluck, K. 455. (The theme was the aria "Unser dummer Pöbel meint", from Gluck's opera "La Rencontre imprévue, or Les Pèlerins de la Mecque").
Read more about this topic: Orchestral Suite No. 4 ''Mozartiana'' (Tchaikovsky)
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