"Kleiner Trauermarsch" ("Little Funeral March") in C minor, K. 453a, is a keyboard work composed in 1784 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, written in the notebook of his student Barbara Ployer.
The piece is subtitled (Funeral March for Mr. Master Counterpoint); Mozart's grotesque exaggeration of conventional features of funeral marches mark it as a humorous parody."Nr. 7 Kleiner Trauermarsch in c", NMA IX/27/2 Klavierstücke, vol. 2: Einzelstücke, p. XVII, Wolfgang Plath (ed.). (in German) It consists of two sections of eight bars each, both repeated, and has no counterpoint. A performance takes about two minutes."Performance" by on a Hammerklavier
It was first published in 1930. The autograph has been lost in 1945.
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, Artur Balsam