Lacrimoso son'io (W.A. Mozart, K.555), canon for four mandolins

[Martin Jonas]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1788): "Lacrimoso son'io", K. 555

This is a canon for four voices, written by Mozart in 1788. The same words were also used for a different canon by Schubert.

I learned this piece from Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni's forthcoming ebook "Evelyn's Big Book for Mandolins for the Year 2017". It's also at IMSLP, although Evelyn's edition is easier to read:

http://imslp.org/wiki/Canon_for_4_Vo...fgang_Amadeus)

Played instrumental on three mandolins and one tenor guitar.

1915 Luigi Embergher mandolin
1890s Umberto Ceccherini mandolin
René Gérôme "Gélas" mandolin
Vintage Viaten tenor guitar

Art by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, a contemporary of Mozart's -- one of the great madmen of Western art.



Martin