Perpetuum mobile

Perpetuum Mobile (often Italian Moto Perpetuo ) is in music history, a term used particularly by Niccolò Paganini, Carl Maria von Weber and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, for instrumentals virtuoso character, which, with a high level of difficulty from start to finish in equal small note values ​​and faster movement ( hence the name) to run.

The term was also used by Johann Strauss ( son ) for a fast polka, with the subtitle " A musical joke ". Here, however, the title is to be understood as an allusion to the constantly repeated accompaniment pattern of the piece.

• Musical genre