Mozart

A detailed Summary of Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756, in

Salzburg. He was baptized Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus

Mozart. He was taught by his father, Leopold Mozart, he was a violinist in

the orchestra of the Archbishop of Salzburg, he finally rose to the position of

chapel master. At the age of three, Wolfgang would sit in front of the

harpsichord, he would try to find harmonic succession of third and when he

did his voice would ring out playfully. When he was four, his father began to

teach him the rules of composition. Leopold decided to show his children's'

talent before all of Europa. Francis 1 of Wein refereed to him as "ein kleine

hexenmeister" ("a little master-wizard"). The Mozarts returned to Salzburg

in 1766, after an absence of four years. "The tour had been a greater success

artistically than materially." One year later the Mozarts went on tour again.

They went to Wein where Wolfgang was scheduled to perform his first

opera. Envious composers created "intrigues", which prevented the opera

from having a performance in public, but was instead performed at Dr.

an opera brought him out of his slump. This resulted in Mozart's first great

grave was unmarked and his body was left unidentified.

of marriage until "he had procured his desired post." He was in Paris in the

the production of Cosi` fan tutte, he received no commission for operas.

he could be thinking of another composition before even finishing the one he

summer of 1778 when his mother passed away. It wasn't long before he was

was a friend of the family. Close to the end of 1769, the

seems...to have been copying music already fully written down in his mind.

to Mannheim to marry Aloysia. Much to his disappointment, she didn't even

while. Sending a prelude and fugue to his sister on 20 April 1792[error of

commissioned Wolfgang to compose a requiem. The stranger represented a

by a few friends and then his body was thrown into a pauper's grave in the

Die Zauberflote. In 1791, a stranger, masked and dressed in gray

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