By Reed Richards
More than 200 years after his death in 1791, the legendary symphony music artist dropped a new single that shocked many. Found during an update of the chronological list of Mozart’s works at the Leipzig Municipal Library in Leipzig, Germany, the new 12 minute song, “Serenade en C” was played on September 19th, 2024, to an audience in Salzburg, Germany.
Based on the way that Mozart signed this piece, it is assumed that this was a piece made much earlier in his life. He signed it as, “Wolfgang Mozart” instead of his more modern “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,” which he started signing his works with when he was 13.
“______ has had a real quiet sense this dropped!” is a wide spread phrase online and in the silly corners of the internet. The name in the blank is interchangeable, but the most funny application of this popular meme is to place the name of a famous dead composer into it because, of course, they can’t drop a song if they’re dead. Now that Mozart has successfully proved the haters wrong and dropped his new single, the haters are quieted for now and fans are eagerly awaiting another single or, perhaps, a whole album from the late Mozart.
Other artists in the past have also released songs postmortem, such as Beethoven, with “Für Elise”, “Piano Concerto no. 0”, “Violin concerto in C.”, Chopin with more than 20 postmortem releases, and Queen with “Made in Heaven” being released after Freddie Mercury’s death. None of these come close to the crazy amount of time that passed between Mozart’s death and his newest release.
In a time plagued by mid music, being alive in the time of a new song from young Mozart is something to be treasured.
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