Various Marches (lost), K. 41c (doubtful)
von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart’s Various Marches (K. 41c) is a lost, dubiously attributed set of orchestral march pieces, associated with Salzburg in 1767, when he was 11. No score survives, and even the work’s exact contents—key, scoring, and number of marches—remain unknown.
Mozart's Life at the Time
In 1767 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) was back in Salzburg after the family’s extended travels, writing music for local occasions and sharpening his craft under Leopold Mozart’s close supervision.[1] That same year he produced a cluster of practical, outward-facing works for the Salzburg milieu—music meant to be used, played, and replaced as needed—alongside more ambitious projects for church and theater.[2]
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Musical Character
Because K. 41c is lost and its attribution is doubtful, nothing reliable can be said about its themes, harmonic plan, or even its precise instrumentation. At most, its description as “various marches” suggests short, functional movements in a steady duple meter, designed for procession or ceremonial use—genres Mozart would return to throughout his Salzburg years.[3]
In other words, K. 41c is best understood as a catalogue trace: a name for music that once circulated (or was believed to have circulated) under Mozart’s authorship, but which cannot presently be tested against surviving notes on the page.[4]
[1] Wikipedia: Piano Concertos Nos. 1–4 (context for Mozart in Salzburg at age 11 in 1767)
[2] MozartDocuments.org: report and context for Salzburg performances in Lent 1767 (Mozart aged 11)
[3] Mozarteum Köchel-Verzeichnis entry (example of Salzburg orchestral marches as a functional genre in Mozart’s output)
[4] Wikipedia: Overview page on Mozart works of spurious or doubtful authenticity (editorial context for doubtful attributions)