Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Born to Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria Mozart on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfang Amadeus Mozart was only the 2nd of seven children born to survive infancy. His older sister Maria Anna Mozart (Nannerl) born July 30, 1751 preceded him in birth. As children, both Mozart and Maria Anna were considered gifted musical prodigies in the eye of the Classical Era of music. Although both had the full benefit of the musical education bestowed upon them by their father, a composer himself, the greater attention was paid to Wolfgang. Wolfgang soon began to demonstrate signs of excelling beyond his father’s lessons by an early composition at age 5, he had demonstrated an outstanding ability in playing both the clarinet …show more content…
It is there in Mannheim that Mozart met, and fell in love with Aloysia Weber (1761-1839). In fear that his son would abandon his musical career for live, Leopold promptly demanded his wife and son to return to Paris. Due to the success of Mozart’s Italian opera seria Idomeneo re di Creta (Idomeneo, King of Crete) and his exploitation by the courts, in 1781 Mozart soon returned to Vienna to live in a house rented for him by friends. That same year he married Constanze Weber (1763-1842). During his marriage to Weber, poverty and illness continually struck the family. While Mozart was working on the singspiel The Magic Flute (1791), an emissary of a Count Walsegg mysteriously requested a requiem mass. This composition was not completed at the time of Mozart’s death, and was his last musical effort. Mozart died, in Vienna on December 5th, 1791. There are currently unsupported arguments that Italian composer, Antonio Salieri murdered Mozart by poisoning him. Fig 2, Mozart and Weber …show more content…
He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence on subsequent Western art music is profound; Ludwig van Beethoven composed his own early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100
Born to Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria Mozart on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfang Amadeus Mozart was only the 2nd of seven children born to survive infancy. His older sister Maria Anna Mozart (Nannerl) born July 30, 1751 preceded him in birth. As children, both Mozart and Maria Anna were considered gifted musical prodigies in the eye of the Classical Era of music. Although both had the full benefit of the musical education bestowed upon them by their father, a composer himself, the greater attention was paid to Wolfgang. Wolfgang soon began to demonstrate signs of excelling beyond his father’s lessons by an early composition at age 5, he had demonstrated an outstanding ability in playing both the clarinet …show more content…
It is there in Mannheim that Mozart met, and fell in love with Aloysia Weber (1761-1839). In fear that his son would abandon his musical career for live, Leopold promptly demanded his wife and son to return to Paris. Due to the success of Mozart’s Italian opera seria Idomeneo re di Creta (Idomeneo, King of Crete) and his exploitation by the courts, in 1781 Mozart soon returned to Vienna to live in a house rented for him by friends. That same year he married Constanze Weber (1763-1842). During his marriage to Weber, poverty and illness continually struck the family. While Mozart was working on the singspiel The Magic Flute (1791), an emissary of a Count Walsegg mysteriously requested a requiem mass. This composition was not completed at the time of Mozart’s death, and was his last musical effort. Mozart died, in Vienna on December 5th, 1791. There are currently unsupported arguments that Italian composer, Antonio Salieri murdered Mozart by poisoning him. Fig 2, Mozart and Weber …show more content…
He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence on subsequent Western art music is profound; Ludwig van Beethoven composed his own early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100