"Kleiner Trauermarsch" ("Little Funeral March") in C minor, K. 453a, is a keyboard work composed in 1784 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, written in the notebook of his student Barbara Ployer.
The piece is subtitled Italian: Marche funebre del Sigr Maestro Contrappunto (Funeral March for Mr. Master Counterpoint); Mozart's grotesque exaggeration of conventional features of funeral marches mark it as a humorous parody.[1] It consists of two sections of eight bars each, both repeated, and has no counterpoint. A performance takes about 2 minutes.[2]
It was first published in 1930. The autograph has been lost in 1945.
