The life of: wolfgang amadeus mozart
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w.a. mozart1756-1791
F
ull name: Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Gottlieb Mozart
B
irth place: Salzburg, Austria
B
irth date: January 27, 1756
P
arents: Leopold Mozart (composer, violinist, concertmaster) and Anna Maria
Pertl
S
ibling: Maria Anna Mozart
SALZBURG, AUSTRIA
w.a. mozart as a child
Age 3-5: Played the keyboards and clavier; composed minuets
Teenage years: mastered the piano, violin, and harpsichord
At age 8 (1764), he came to London
where played in public, and before
George III and his Queen. To the Queen
he dedicated six sonatas, and got fifty
guineas for them
In the year 1763-
1766, Mozart ,
together with his
father and his sister
were able to tour
Europe. Mozart was
able to play for Louis
XV at Versailles
during this trip.
Mozart was able to
complete his first
opera entitled, La
Finta Semplice
( The Simple
Pretense) in the
year 1768.
In the year 1772,
Mozart was appointed
concertmaster in the
orchestra of the
Archbishop of
Salzburg. He was able
to write many sacred
works during this
period.
Mozart was married
to Constanze Weber
in Vienna's St.
Stephen's Cathedral
in the year 1782.
On April of the year
1787, Ludwig Van
Beethoven arrives
in Vienna to study
with Mozart.
On the day of his
final public concert,
Mozart played his
last piano concerto,
No.27 in B flat.
In the year 1791, Mozart
started to compose the
Requiem. Due to overwork
in composing this piece,
Mozart suffered from
depression and delusions
that he has been poisoned.
On December 4, 1791,
Mozart gave his pupil,
Süssmayr instructions
on how to complete
the Requiem. Mozart
died the day after.
Years of travel
M
ozart's musical ability started to
become apparent when he was
a toddler. Mozart received
intensive musical training from
his father. He developed very
rapidly and began to compose
his own works at the age of five.
D
uring his young years, Mozart
completed several journeys in
Europe, beginning with an
exhibition in 1762 at the Court
of the Prince of Bavaria in
Munich, then in the same year
at the imperial Court in Vienna.
T
hen a long concert tour (three and a
half years) took him with his father
to the courts of Munich, Mannheim,
Paris, London, The Hague, again to
Paris and back home via Zurich,
Donaueschingen, and Munich.They
went to Vienna again in late 1767
and remained there until December
1768.
D
uring the first of these trips he met in Bologna G.B.
Martini, and was accepted as a member of the
famous Accademia Filarmonica.
A
highlight of the Italian journey, which became a
semi-legendary tale about Mozart, occurred when
he listened to Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere once in
performance, then wrote it out in its entirety from
memory (he returned a second time to correct
minor errors).
I
n September 1777 Mozart began a tour of Europe,
accompanied only by his mother, that took them to
Munich, Mannheim and Paris (where she died).
D
uring his trips, Mozart met a great number of
musicians, and knew the works of other great
composers (among them J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel,
Joseph Haydn). Even non-musicians caught his
attention: he was so taken by the sound created
by Benjamin Franklin’s Glass harmonica, he
composed several pieces of music for it.
J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel, Joseph Haydn
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