Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's A Musical Joke is filled with intentional mistakes by the composer, who inserted odd notes into this amusing and mischievous piece in order to take an angry side-swipe at dilettante composer-colleagues of his time, whose lack of imagination and artless compositional technique are here mercilessly demonstrated - the piece was not intended to parody musicians who play wrong notes as its later title “Village Musicians” suggests. A musical and intellectual delight for today’s performers and audiences alike, this piece is now performable for the first time using a genuine Urtext quality edition based on the autograph in Berlin. A Musical Joke is scored for 2 Violins, Viola, Basso and 2 Horns in F.
| Instrument (fx guitar, sang m.m.) | Ensemble/Sammenspil |
| Genrer (Fx Pop, Rock, Børn m.m.) | Klassisk |
| Type (fx Instrumentskole o.lign.) | Stemmer |
| Sideantal | 55 |
| Media (fx Bog, CD, DVD m.m.) | Noder |
| Series | Henle Urtext Editions |
| Publisher/Producent | Henle Verlag |
| Bidragydere | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (Composer) |
| Sprog | Engelsk |
| ISMN | 9790201812816 |