Mozart 1756-1791
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart was born January 27, 1756 in Salzburg Austria to Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria Pertl. Leopold was the son of a bookbinder while Anna Maria was the daughter of a county official and amateur musician. Leopold himself was a violinist and worked as the Vice Kapllmeister for Archbishop Schrattenbach of Salzburg. He at the age of twenty-eight married Anna Maria then twenty-seven after a long courtship. The couple had seven children, two of which lived, the second, Maria Anna (Nannerl) and the Seventh Wolfgang. Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart is his full baptismal name; he went by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. I take it that his first name is attributed to the fact that his mother grew up near Lake Wolfgang. Amadeus is Latin for Theophilus, which is Greek and in all languages means: Beloved of God. One wonders whether he ever heard of the ancient Greek king Menander?s saying: ?Whom the gods love dies young.?1 At age three Wolfgang began imitating his sister as she played the clavier. When he played and the music sounded good, he was happy, but if it sounded bad he would start to cry. By age four he composed his first piece, minuet in G and attempted to write a c
Aloysia had now been married, but her younger sister Constanze was still available. Mozart was able to match different types of music to different themes and different scores to stages. 1 It was written for a string quartet, but Mozart added one. While there Wolfgang met Joseph Haydn a very exciting event. So now he has no place to go except for back to Salzburg. 626 was the Requiem) He put emotion into what he wrote and what he wrote showed imagination. ?1 After the performance Wolfgang slipped and fell while playing hide and seek. The empress Maria Theresa invited them to perform, when the performance was over, Wolfgang ran up to the empress and kissed her, something that was very inappropriate, but she didn?t seem to mind. Eine kleine Nachtmusik is also composed that year. It is written in G Major and is in triple meter. Wolferl spends Easter in Rome where he wrote a choral piece out from memory after hearing it only once, the name of the piece is Allegri?s Miserere. Linley is an English violinist and a has-been ?child prodigy?. Upon reaching Paris they didn?t find much to look forward to that was any better. Leopold had hoped that the Empress would offer him a position, but none was offered.
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