Mozart

It was during this time that a young man by the name of Leopold Mozart was starting to forge his role as a chamber musician in the city of Salzburg. Able to earn a nice sized steady income from his position, he at age 28 married Anna Maria Pertl on November 21, 1747. Despite being a popular and happily married couple, they did not live without peril. They had five of their children die during infancy, which was not uncommon during that period.

The Mozart’s first child to survive infancy, Maria Anna “Nannerl” Mozart, was a musical child prodigy. Born in Salzburg on July 31, 1751, she was quickly considered one of the best pianists in the area. She would go on to become famous throughout the continent as one of the most gifted child m

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Then not long after, his wife Constanze became dangerously ill. Further be it known that this will be the only concert, since they are immediately afterwards to continue their journey to France and England. Others were still jealous of his phenomenal genius; therefore it was hard for him to receive the appreciation he deserved. During all of this one night he was found unconscious at his desk. Not only was he having problems with his peers but also his mother died in 1778. His opera Le nozze di Figaro was getting rave reviews from both critics and fellow musicians, and he was no longer tormented by financial problems. Their appearance at Schonbrunn Palace on October 13 was judged by Leopold to be an extreme success. While in this rich creative environment Mozart flourished. The Mozart Family: Four Lives in a Social Context. Before his opera seria, Mitridate, re di Ponte’s first rehearsal everyone was talking about how it was impossible for a child to understand the theatre and could write nothing that could be considered any more than childish. And if this be unheard-of and incredible in such young children and with such power, since the boy is complete master of the keyboard; so much so that these two children’s skill not only astonished the Electoral Courts of Saxony, Bavaria and that Palatinate, but also afforded exceptional entertainment to His Imperial and Royal Majesty during a 4 month’s visit to Vienna, and were the object of general wonderment: so we hope the more readily to procure some pleasure to the public of this city; for we know of no-one in a position to say truthfully that he has ever seen o!

r heard the like from children of such tender years.

Leopold, with stars in his eyes, set his heart on France and in mid-summer they departed from Salzburg once again, only this time they would be gone for more than three years.

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