I've hit a sloppy patch of pieces. It was hard to know what to do next. I got through all the Grand Tour works. I think. Maybe. Sort of. Who really knows? So I went with K33b. Was it a quickly doodled bit? I don't know. I'm sure Mozart had a lot of quickly doodled musical tidbits. This one had staying power. In fact, it was used in the movie Amadeus. The scene where young Mozart was touring. If I am understanding it right, Mozart would have actually wrote it after the tour. The movie may have got the bit wrong. I don't know.
Apart from the nerdy stuff, this song is a fun cheerful piece. It's full of youthful hope. If it was written near the end of the grand tour, I could see it being a "that was fun, but thank God it is over," tune. There is hope in it. "I done with that crap" kind of hope. Or, maybe I'm reading too much into the historical context. And, relying on personal experience. We all hit those moments after a long hard trial, or straining effort. We think we've reached a point of smooth sailing. The young Mozart may have reached that point. Of course, when we look back on it, we often see our rest was only a rest, it wasn't a lifestyle changing event. New trials, new strains come.
This song suggests 'enjoy the rest.'
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