K. 33, Kyrie
Its hard for me to get into heavy Gregorian sounding
music. K. 33 is a bit of that. Kyrie
Eleison ‘Lord have mercy’. Why ask
for mercy? And what music fits best such a plea? Their grand tour was winding down. Much of the family had nearly died on the
trip. And, the 10-year-old boy wrote this piece. But, it doesn’t seem the tones are a plea for
mercy. The music seems, in fact, to declare, ‘God has been merciful.’ Soft and
surrendered.
If you want to hear a real music that captures real pleas
for mercy, listen to the Kyrie of Mozart’s Mass in C minor. K. 427.
That’s music of a pleading heart.
