Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is an Austrian Composer who created a string of operas, concertos, symphonies, and sonatas that shaped the classical music genre. Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. Little did they know, the small city of Salzburg would be the birthplace of one of the most talented musical composers of all time. Wolfgang was the only surviving son of Leopold and Maria Pertl Mozart. Wolfgang was raised in a very Catholic family and was taught to remain loyal to the church throughout his life. Leopold was a very successful composer, violinist, and assistant concertmaster at the Salzburg court. Wolfgang had one sister, Maria Anna aka Nannerl. Because their father was musical, both of the
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He quickly found work in Vienna, taking on interns, writing music for the public, and he played in several concerts. He began writing an opera Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail.
In 1781, Wolfgang wanted to marry a woman named Constanze. Mozart knew that his father disapproved of the marriage. His dad knew that the marriage would get in the way of him following his music career. This is all rumor of course but he did ask for his father’s blessing to marry her. Wolfgang and Constanze got married on August 4th 1782. Leopold finally did consent to the marriage. they have six children are only to survive. Their names were Karl Thomas and Franz Xaver. Die Entfuhrung was a huge success. This opera cemented Wolfgang name and talent throughout Europe. By the mid-1780s Wolfgang and Constanze Mozart’s rich lifestyle was falling rapidly. Wolfgang was in huge debt. Mozart wrote some of his most famous musical pieces. He said he was experiencing ‘black thoughts’. He fell into a deep depression. This is thought to be bi-polar disorder explaining the periods of craziness and the spells of amazing
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Some of his most admired works -- the opera The Magic Flute, the final piano concerto in B-flat, the Clarinet Concerto in A major, and the unfinished Requiem to name a few -- were written during this time.” He was able to pay off his debt with the great turn of events.
Unfortunately, during this time his health, both mental and physical were slowly declining. Even though he was in poor health, he was still able to conduct one last premier in Prague. That was not best choice because he was confined to the bed because of how much the sickness had progressed. Constanze and her sister tried to nurse him back to health. Wolfgang did not appreciate their help and was preoccupied with finishing what he was working on. Their help was disregarded. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died on December 5, 1791, at the age of 35. The cause of death is uncertain because of the uncertainty in postmortem diagnosis. He was buried in a common coffin. This just says that it does not matter who you are, we will all be buried the same. His wife sold many of his unpublished manuscripts to undoubtedly pay off the remainder of the debt. She was able to build several memorial concerts in Mozart’s honor. With her efforts she was able to send her kids to private school and get some financial support for
Wolfgang was busy during his childhood, playing, and practicing his music; he did not get much of a chance to really experience being a child. His father was constantly pushing him to be better, to play hard, and to make more money. Mozart and his father were evidently close, there are many different views to how Leopold fathered his children; some say he was a money hungry truant, others say he was sweet, sensitive, wanted the best for his children, and that the money didn’t matter. I believe that Leopold want the best for his children, and maybe a little money out of it. Eventually, Mozart wanted to leave his native home of Salzburg, he was most likely tired of his father constantly trying to control his life. Having knowledge of the lack of jobs in Vienna, and disregarding his fathers pleads, Mozart left his home anyways, heading for Vienna with no steady job.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, (baptized name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Gottlieb Mozart) was born January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. (Gay) He was the final child of seven born to Leopold Mozart, a notable composer and violinist, and his wife Anna Marie and the only male to survive. He had an older sister named Marie Anna (called Nannerl) who was the only other surviving child. (Gay) He showed an aptitude for music
Mozart was a virtuoso on the piano. A virtuoso refers to someone who is highly skilled on his or her instrument. Mozart played keyboard and violin while his sister only played the keyboard. At the early age of 3, Mozart was showing signs of being musically gifted and began composing shortly after. Both he and his sister received intense musical training which, in turn, allowed Mozart the opportunity to grow as a musician. It became certain that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy. This meant that he had a skill that was not learned. He had a natural gift for music. Their father, Leopold began teaching his children music at a young age. Because of this, both children were destined to get far in their musical careers. Over his short life, Mozart wrote several operas. His most famous operas include; The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute and La Clemenza di Tito. Operas and plays that are entirely sung. Each of Mozart’s operas have a story behind it. For example, The Marriage of Figaro is a comedy about a couple trying to get married but, a series of obstacles interferes with it. Because Mozart showed a talent for music at the young age of six, his father took him and his sister to play in from of a court and they caught the attention of important individuals. This resulted in a tour.
After Mozart and his father returned to Italy from a ten year tour, Mozart was employed by Prince-Archbishop Hieronymus Collero to be a court musician in the year 1773. With a pay check of only 150 florins a year though, Mozart began to look for other job ventures and began to try to write operas that he hoped would help kick start his career as a professional musician. It was not until 1782 when Mozart began to receive the credit that he deserved. Performing on multiple local keyboard competitions, he was soon established as one of the best keyboard players in Vienna. Finally in 1783, as he finished writing the opera Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, he began to be seen as a successful independent composer and started to receive a reputation as such (Abert 642). As Mozart got older, he matured even more as a composer writing a total of over six hundred pieces including symphonies, operas, concertos, and other styles of pieces during his life
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is said to be the greatest genius in western music history. Wolfgang Amadeus was born in Salzburg, Austria January 27, 1756 his parents were Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria Pertl. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s father was a successful composer, violinist, and assistant concertmaster at the Salzburg court. The
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An Austrian composer and performer who showed astonishing precocity as a child and was an adult virtuoso, musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria Pertl in Salzburg, Austria on January 27, 1756. Leopold Mozart was a successful composer and violinist and served as assistant concertmaster at the Salzburg court. Mozart and his older sister Maria Anna "Nannerl" were the couple's only
The period form 1774 to mid 1777 was spent in Salzburg where he worked as a Konzertmeister at the Prince Archbishop’s court. He wrote many of his works during this time. Seeing limited opportunity in Salzburg, he left with his mother to Munich and Mannheim. No post was offered here either. His father then sent him to Paris with minor success only with his Paris Symphony no.31, deftly designed for the local taste. So, Wolfgang returned home alone. His mother had died in Paris. The years 1779-80 were spent in Salzburg playing in a cathedral and at court. He finally landed his big break when he wrote the Opera Idomeneo as a commission for Munich ( “Mozart” Grove ) Though there was conflict between him, his employer, and the Archbishop. So in May 1781 he resigned or was kicked out of his job. Wolfgang continued made a living as part time teacher, composer, and performer for various events. He married Constanze Weber in 1782. Also in 1782 and the following few years, Wolfgang wrote six string quartets all dedicated to the master of the form, Hayden. Hayden once told Mozart’s father that “Mozart was the greatest composer known to me in person or by name; he has taste and, what is more, the greatest knowledge of composition” ( “Mozart” Grove ). He wrote 15 piano concertos before the
In 1747 Leopold Mozart married Maria Anna Pertl. Leopold and Maria Anna would have seven children, two of who would survive. Maria Anna born in 1752 who the family called Nannerl . Then in 1756 Wolfgang Amadeus who was nicknamed Wolfgangerl. Wolfgang Amadeus was not his original birth name it was shortened to this from Joannes Chrisostomos Wolfgangus Gottlieb. It is little wonder even two of the children survived; “Given Leopolds insistence that they be brought up on a diet of water and gruel, the wonder is that any survived at all.” (Siepmann, Mozart His life and Music) Leopold Mozart was very musical himself and was a skilled violinist, composer and an author. He wrote a well
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the greatest composers of the classical period. Mozart was bound to be successful after many achievements at a young age. At the age of 6 he could play the violin and the harpsichord, and he also perfected first sight. And Then at the age of eight he wrote his first symphony, than a couple years later at the age of eleven an oratorio and finally at the twelve an opera. To me that’s a really good resume its so remarkable how he could learn about music so much at a very young age. All of these achievements could not go unrecognized. The archbishop recognized him and gave him a job for his teenage years. But Mozart was too much to handle he wanted to write whatever he want and not the archbishop so he quit. After
In January 27, 1756, in a town in Austria called Salzburg, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to Leopold Mozart and Maria Pertl Mozart. Mozart was the younger of two children. His sister, Maria Anna Mozart (who was dubbed “Nannerl” by her brother) was only five years older than Mozart and was probably one of the greatest child prodigies in all of Europe, until her brother came along. Mozart’s sister traveled all around Europe to places like London, Paris, and Switzerland to perform compositions on the harpsichord, which is an instrument similar to the piano. When Mozart’s father taught Nannerl to play the harpsichord, Mozart eagerly looked on, and by the age of three, Mozart had mastered the harpsichord and had won his father’s interest. Mozart also went on to play many instruments like the piano, organ, violin, and viola.
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In Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756. Wolfgang was the only son of Leopold and Maria Pertl Mozart to survive. Wolfgang began learning about music when he was three years old, watching his sister Nannerl play the keyboard. He was a musical prodigy, composing his first piece at 5, and beginning “tours” with his father at 6 years old. When Wolfgang turned 13, his father took him to Italy to show off this young boy’s talents. Before Mozart turned 21, he was appointed to be assistant concertmaster. It was at this time that he wrote his first opera. Mozart left on another tour in 1777, and then returned to Salzburg to be a court organist. He soon decided he was not so fond of this position, and resigned to become a freelance musician in Vienna. When he moved to Vienna, he married Constanze Weber, against his father’s wishes. Wolfgang lived in luxury during the beginning of his life in Vienna, he was producing popular operas. Soon, though, he began to lack money, and took loans that would leave him in debt for the rest of his life. In the final years of Mozart’s life, he was most productive, writing his most famous symphonies, The Magic Flute, and of course,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart lived from January 27, 1756 to December 5, 1791. Mozart was a very influential and prolific composer of more than 600 works, including symphonies, concertante, chamber, piano, opera, and choral music. Regarded as a child prodigy, Mozart composed and performed in the European courts from the age of five, and was engaged at the Salzburg court at 17. Mozart’s musical style can be classified as Classical, although he learned from many of his contemporaries throughout his musical career. In order to better understand Mozart’s genius it is best to begin looking at his earliest contributions to the musical world as a child. From there, an exploration of his
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