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Mozart set Christian Adolph
Overbecks text to "Komm, lieber Mai" in January 1791 shortly
before what would be his last birthday. Overbeck, a poet and lawyer
and later Mayor of Lübeck, wrote a set of poems in 1776 under the
title Fritzchen an
den Mai (Fritz on
the May). This song is highly regarded among the German art songs of
the era. Mozart coupled it with two other songs under the title
Sehnsucht nach dem
Fruhlinge (Longing
for Spring). Seemingly taken by his theme, Mozart uses it again in
the finale of his last piano concerto, Piano Concerto No. 27 in
B-flat Major, K. 595.
Mozarts
three songs were published in a collection of childrens song by
Ignaz Alberti. While the voice is supposed to be that of a child, it
is really an adults longing for the flowering of Spring and the
promise of new birth and, perhaps, new love.
This set of variations were written as a recital work with a young violist (playable in first position) in mind. They are abouyt five minutes in length.
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