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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791)
Wolfgang Mozart was born in Salzburg on January 27 in 1756. He was a great composer and a musician. The Mozart family was full of musicians, his father (Leopold Mozart) was a masterful violinist and his sister (Maria Anna) was a gifted piano player. Mozart started showing his talents at his early ages. He started composing when he was just 5 years old. When he was 6 he played for the Bavarian elector and the Austrian empress.
In 1770, Wolfgang and his family traveled to Italy. While in Italy he wrote 2 operas (Mitridate, Lucio Silla) and a serenata for his performance in Milan. In the summer of 1773, Mozart traveled further to Vienna, hoping to get a job there. In Vienna he wrote a set of string quartets, and when he was returning he wrote a group of symphonies. In early 1775, Mozart traveled to Munich for the premier of his opera La Finta Giardiniera. Then he stayed in Salzburg working as a concert meister at the Prince- Archbishop’s court until 1777. In those years he had developed many songs.
In 1777 the Mozarts discovered there was limited opportunity in Salzburg for a gifted composer like Wolfgang. They sent Wolfgang and his mother to Munich and Mannheim to look for a job. However there was no position offered. Wolfgang stayed in Mannheim for four months composing for the piano and the flute and falling in love with Aloysia Weber. Then his father sent him to Paris where he had little success. However he had composed a piece called the Paris Symphony No.31, which was designed for the local taste, but the prospects there were poor. So Leopold called him home for a great job opening at the court.
Wolfgang went back slowly and alone, because his mother had died in Paris. Wolfgang spent the years 1779 to 1780 in Salzburg playing at the cathedral and the court, composing various pieces. However, opera was the main focus of his ambitions. An opportunity struck him when there was a job opening for a serious opera for Munich. He worked there as a composer in the late 1780s, one of his pieces called Idomeneo was a success in Munich.
Mozart was called from Munich to Vienna, where in the Salzburg court, was getting a new emperor. Fresh from his success, he found himself at a low ranking position. Then he started hating his Arch Bishop because he refused to let him perform to the Emperor, this soon left to conflict. In 1781, Wolfgang resigned, or got fired. He wanted to work at the Imperial Court in Vienna, but he was satisfied by doing freelance work in a city with many good opportunities.
Wolfgang made a living by teaching and publishing his music or just playing in public. By composing for work in operas; in 1787 he obtained a minor court job as a Kammermusicus, which gave him a decent salary, and he didn’t have to do much except for writing dance music for court balls. By a musician’s standards, he had always earned a good income. Through wasteful spending and poor management, he suffered through financial difficulty, and had to borrow money.
In 1782, Wolfgang got married to Constanze Weber, Aloysia’s younger sister. Wolfgang also worked on compositions for piano concertos, so he would appear as a soloist and a composer. He had written 15 compositions before the end of 1786. They represented one of Wolfgang’s greatest achievements by playing it in an orchestra, which turned out to be an overall brilliant piece.
In 1786, Wolfgang wrote the first of his 3 comic operas. The first was named Le Nozze di Figaro. Another one of his comics was called Cosi fan Tutte, which was based on sexual comedy.
Mozart lived in Vienna for the rest of his life. He had many journeys to Salzburg in 1783 to introduce his wife to his family. He went to Prague 3 times for concerts and operas. He went to Berlin in 1789, where he hoped to get a job. He went to Frankfurt in 1790 to play coronation celebrations. His last journey was to Prague in 1791, for the premier of his serious opera called La Clemenza di Tito. His instrumental works of these years include piano sonatas, 3 string quartets written for the King of Prussia, and some string quintets. His final works includes his Clarinet Concerto and some pieces for Masonic Lodges.
Mozart died from a feverish illness with the characteristics of him being poisoned, but he was not. He had left one of his large scale works called Requiem unfinished. Requiem was his first large scale work for the church since the C Minor Mass of 1783, which was also unfinished. However a completed version of Requiem was done by Wolfgang’s student Süssmayr, which was accepted as the standard one. However, there have been recent attempts to improve on it.
“Mozart was buried in a Vienna suburb, with little ceremony and in an unmarked grave.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Maria Anna Mozart
Leopold Mozart
Bibliography
Boynick, Matt & Sadie, Stanley. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 10 June 2007.
http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/mozart.html
“Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart” Online Photograph. 10 June 2007
http://www.ul.ie/~philos/images/mozart3.jpg
“Maria Anna Mozart” Online Photograph. 10 June 2007
http://content.answers.com/main/content ... (Lorenzoni).jpg
“Leopold Mozart” Online Photograph. 10 June 2007
http://content.answers.com/main/content ... Mozart.jpg
“Konzert” Online Photograph. 10 June 2007
http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/store/smp ... 19&page=04
“Sonate” Online Photograph. 10 June 2007
http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/store/smp ... 19&page=01
“Ave Verum” Online Photograph. 10 June 2007
http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/store/smp ... 19&page=01
“Ave Verum” By: W.A Mozart
“Konzert” By: W.A Mozart
“Sonate” By: W.A Mozart
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