The Marriage of Figaro

“Love, Love, Love that is the soul of genius” (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart). In Western music he is generally identified as one of the most significant and substantial composers. Ludwig Van Beethoven, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were few of many innovative composers, but one who stood out from the few and was a prodigy as a young child was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Born on January 27 1756 to Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria, née Pertl in Salzburg, which is the…

On January 27, 1756, Salzburg, Austria was graced with the birth of one of the most influential composers of the Classical Music Era; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Parents; Leopold and Maria Mozart struggled to have a son, making Wolfgang the only sole surviving son. Leopold was a successful composer, violinist and concert assistant. Wolfgang’s older sister, Maria Anna was taught by their father to play piano. Through observation and fascination at the young age of 3 Wolfgang began to master the…

The movies Groundhog Day, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Star Trek-Insurrection, and There’s Something About Mary are all very well known, but differ immensely in several aspects. With that being said, there is one thing that all these movies have in common; they all feature compositions from the eighteenth-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This review will cover the life of Mozart, his education, his compositions, and his musical achievements. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January…

Anna Maria gave birth to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on January 27, 1756. When he was younger, Mozart watched his father, Leopold, teach his sister, Maria Anna, how to play piano. At the age of three, he became a child prodigy. During his childhood, his family traveled around Europe. While on those trips, Maria Anna and Wolfgang performed as prodigies. Mozart became employed as a court musician by Prince-Archbishop Hieronymus Colloredo in 1773. He had the chance to work in many genres: symphonies,…

his first opera, Mitridate re di Ponto, was written. After moving to Vienna in 1781, Mozart and his wife, Constanze Weber, lived a luxurious life. Mozart, at the time, was making good and his career was going strong. In 1786, his operas, The Marriage of Figaro and The Abduction from the Seraglio, were great successes. Unfortunately, after all the hype died down from his operas, Mozart went into a financial crisis. During the last year of Mozart’s life, the music industry gained a lot from…

member of the ancient nobility of French origin.Apart from this, he was a renowned gambler, stockbroker and also a painter of amateur tools.Laure le Potvin, her mother, was a staunch and active woman .she was also so domineering. Maupassant parents marriage status was never good.Characterized by series of bitterness full of disillusionment.Due to this, it could not work, and finally the two separated when he was only 11 years old. Soon after the breakup, Maupassant was brought up by his mother.…

In today’s day and age, many great and successful composers have been forgotten. However, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is not one of them. His name and his reputation have lived on through the centuries. In his 35 years of life Mozart composed over 600 with many still listened to today. He is famous for big symphonies, operas, music sung by quires, music on the piano, and much more. Mozart’s talents are endless and he has been a huge influence in classical music and still inspires people today.…

Going through school, the books we had to read were universally terrible. No one, let alone a high school student, wants to read a book originally written on a pot, or the book version of Sons of Anarchy, or an allegorical book about an economic system that doesn't exist anymore. Into The Wild drove me crazy as a Boy Scout, with the protagonists intentional disregard for commonly accepted outdoor safety procedures, and The Great Gatsby was a better movie. The only book that I liked, and liked a…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is arguably the greatest composer of all time. Along with his many symphonies, he also wrote the music for operas. Even though The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, and Don Giovanni are his three most famous operas, Cosí fan Tutte is largely underrated. This opera is the story of two sets of lovers. Under the guidance of their old friend Don Alfonso, the two men decide to test their partners ' loyalty by pretending to go off to war and coming back disguised. Slowly,…

The cold ache of hardship and sorrow chiseled at Peter’s bones as he relinquished a part of himself and moved on to New England, in pursuit of letting go of his tormented past. His deceased wife, Amanda Deveraux, had died just recently and Peter was still woebegone, struggling to cope with the loss of his wife. Though Peter wielded a deep passion for books and literature, every book that he encompassed seared a knife through his heart and shot it with a notorious remembrance of the past. He,…