“Einsam bin ich, meine Liebe” in D minor (fragment, doubtful), K. 475a
沃尔夫冈·阿马德乌斯·莫扎特
“Einsam bin ich, meine Liebe” (K. 475a) is a fragmentary German Lied in D minor, traditionally dated to 1785 in Vienna, and transmitted without secure proof of Mozart’s authorship [1]. What survives is slight—yet its dark key and intimate scoring point toward the expressive, text-led world Mozart cultivated in his Viennese songs.
Background and Context
In 1785—Mozart’s 29th year—Vienna was the center of his public life as a pianist-composer, even as he continued to write smaller-scale vocal pieces for private performance. “Einsam bin ich, meine Liebe” survives only as an uncompleted fragment for voice and keyboard, and the text’s author is unknown [1]. The International Mozarteum Foundation’s Köchel catalogue lists the work explicitly as of doubtful authenticity, so it is best understood as a document on the margins of the Mozart repertory rather than a securely attributable Lied [1].
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Musical Character
The fragment is notated as a song for voice and clavier (keyboard), in D minor, and occupies only two pages in score transmission [1]. Even without a complete structure, the choice of D minor—the key Mozart often reserves for heightened seriousness—suggests a Lied aimed at concentrated emotional directness rather than strophic ease. In that sense, the surviving page(s) align with the more searching expressive tone that emerges in Mozart’s Viennese Lieder of the mid-to-late 1780s, where the keyboard part participates as more than mere accompaniment.
[1] International Mozarteum Foundation, Köchel Verzeichnis entry for KV 475a (status, scoring, key, fragmentary state, text author unknown).