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Kleiner Trauermarsch, K. 453a
"Kleiner Trauermarsch" ("Little Funeral March") in C minor, Köchel catalogue, 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. 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 fortepiano, Hammerklavier It was first published in 1930. The autograph has been lost in 1945.


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