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Adagio and Allegro in F minor K. 594
Written as funeral music for Field Marshal Gideon Baron of Laudon, this work (originally for a mechanical organ in a clock) was composed for Count Joseph Deym’s Müllersche Kunstgalerie in Vienna, in late 1790. It is to be imagined that Mozart would have approved of the work being played on a conventional organ, as during the work’s composition he wrote to his wife Constanze that he wished that “the thing sounded like an organ”, complaining that “the works consist of nothing but tiny pipes which are too high in pitch and strike me as too childish.” It seems as though he contented himself eventually, however, as he later adjudged that the work and its installation in the gallery “in precision and purity and compatibility to the works of art surpasses anything that anyone has ever succeeded in producing.”
Mozart: Adagio and Allegro K. 594
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