Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Biography, Facts, Works. Alternative Titles. Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Austrian composer. Mama Mama Mia Astro there. Also known as. Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozartborn. January 2. 7, 1. 75. Salzburg, Austriadied. December 5, 1. 79. Vienna, Austrianotable worksfamily. View Biographies Related To. Complete Mozart Edition Volume 12' title='Complete Mozart Edition Volume 12' />Categories. Dates. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in full Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart born January 2. Salzburg, archbishopric of Salzburg Austriadied December 5, 1. Vienna, Austrian composer, widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. November 12, 2017. NEW LOWEST PRICES click on the title to compare prices Amazon. 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It was during the European tour that took the young Mozart and his family to Brussels, Paris, London and the The Hague in 17631766 that Mozarts first. With Haydn and Beethoven he brought to its height the achievement of the Viennese Classical school. Unlike any other composer in musical history, he wrote in all the musical genres of his day and excelled in every one. His taste, his command of form, and his range of expression have made him seem the most universal of all composers yet, it may also be said that his music was written to accommodate the specific tastes of particular audiences. Early life and works. Complete Mozart Edition Volume 12' title='Complete Mozart Edition Volume 12' />Mozart most commonly called himself Wolfgang Amad or Wolfgang Gottlieb. His father, Leopold, came from a family of good standing from which he was estranged, which included architects and bookbinders. I/61TjjKGvfML._SY355_.jpg' alt='Complete Mozart Edition Volume 12' title='Complete Mozart Edition Volume 12' />Tabtight professional, free when you need it, VPN service. Christmas MIDI pages all year round with stories, coloring book, and more. Leopold was the author of a famous violin playing manual, which was published in the very year of Mozarts birth. His mother, Anna Maria Pertl, was born of a middle class family active in local administration. Mozart and his sister Maria Anna Nannerl were the only two of their seven children to survive. The boys early talent for music was remarkable. At three he was picking out chords on the harpsichord, at four playing short pieces, at five composing. There are anecdotes about his precise memory of pitch, about his scribbling a concerto at the age of five, and about his gentleness and sensitivity he was afraid of the trumpet. Just before he was six, his father took him and Nannerl, also highly talented, to Munich to play at the Bavarian court, and a few months later they went to Vienna and were heard at the imperial court and in noble houses. The miracle which God let be born in Salzburg was Leopolds description of his son, and he was keenly conscious of his duty to God, as he saw it, to draw the miracle to the notice of the world and incidentally to profit from doing so. In mid 1. 76. 3 he obtained a leave of absence from his position as deputy Kapellmeister at the prince archbishops court at Salzburg, and the family set out on a prolonged tour. They went to what were all the main musical centres of western EuropeMunich, Augsburg, Stuttgart, Mannheim, Mainz, Frankfurt, Brussels, and Paris where they remained for the winter, then London where they spent 1. The Hague, Amsterdam, Paris, Lyon, and Switzerland, and arriving back in Salzburg in November 1. In most of these cities Mozart, and often his sister, played and improvised, sometimes at court, sometimes in public or in a church. Leopolds surviving letters to friends in Salzburg tell of the universal admiration that his sons achievements aroused. In Paris they met several German composers, and Mozarts first music was published sonatas for keyboard and violin, dedicated to a royal princess in London they met, among others, Johann Christian Bach, Johann Sebastian Bachs youngest son and a leading figure in the citys musical life, and under his influence Mozart composed his first symphoniesthree survive K 1. K 1. 9, and K 1. 9aK signifying the works place in the catalog of Ludwig von Kchel. Two more followed during a stay in The Hague on the return journey K 2. K 4. 5a. After little more than nine months in Salzburg the Mozarts set out for Vienna in September 1. Mozart wrote a one act German singspiel, Bastien und Bastienne, which was given privately. Greater hopes were attached to his prospect of having an Italian opera buffa, La finta semplice The Feigned Simpleton, done at the court theatrehopes that were, however, frustrated, much to Leopolds indignation. But a substantial, festal mass setting probably K 1. Orphanage Church. La finta semplice was given the following year, 1. Salzburg. In October Mozart was appointed an honorary Konzertmeister at the Salzburg court. Britannica Lists Quizzes. Still only 1. 3, Mozart had by now acquired considerable fluency in the musical language of his time, and he was especially adept at imitating the musical equivalent of local dialects. The early Paris and London sonatas, the autographs of which include Leopolds helping hand, show a childlike pleasure in patterns of notes and textures. But the London and The Hague symphonies attest to his quick and inventive response to the music he had encountered, as, with their enrichment of texture and fuller development, do those he produced in Vienna such as K 4. K 4. 8. And his first Italian opera shows a ready grasp of the buffo style. The Italian tours. Test Your Knowledge. Musical Line Up. Mastery of the Italian operatic style was a prerequisite for a successful international composing career, and the Austrian political dominion over northern Italy ensured that doors would be open there to Mozart. This time Mozarts mother and sister remained at home, and the family correspondence provides a full account of events. The first tour, begun on December 1. Mozart play. In Verona Mozart was put through stringent tests at the Accademia Filarmonica, and in Milan, after tests of his capacities in dramatic music, he was commissioned to write the first opera for the carnival season. After a stop in Bologna, where they met the esteemed theorist Giovanni Battista Martini, they proceeded to Florence and on to Rome for Holy Week. There Mozart heard the Sistine Choir in the famous Miserere of Gregorio Allegri 1. Mozart copied out from memory. They spent six weeks in Naples returning through Rome, Mozart had a papal audience and was made a knight of the order of the Golden Spur. The summer was passed near Bologna, where Mozart passed the tests for admission to the Accademia Filarmonica. In mid October he reached Milan and began work on the new opera, Mitridate, r di Ponto Mithradates, King of Pontus. He had to rewrite several numbers to satisfy the singers, but, after a series of rehearsals Leopolds letters provide fascinating insights as to theatre procedures, the premiere at the Regio Ducal Teatro on December 2. Mozart, in the traditional way, directed the first three of the 2. After a brief excursion to Venice he and his father returned to Salzburg. Plans had already been laid for further journeys to Italy for a theatrical serenata commissioned for a royal wedding in Milan in October 1. Milan, at carnival time in 1. Mozart was also commissioned to write an oratorio for Padua he composed La Betulia liberata during 1. The second Italian visit, between August and December 1. Ascanio in Alba, which, Leopold gleefully reported, completely overshadowed the other new work for the occasion, an opera Ruggiero by Johann Adolph Hasse, the most respected opera seria composer of the time. But hopes that Leopold had entertained of his sons securing an appointment in Milan were disappointed.