Mozart's father, Leopold: a keen musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was the only surviving son of the well-known violin teacher and occasional composer Leopold Mozart, who wrote the pieces including a Trumpet Concerto and the Toy Symphony. Mozart Horn Concerto No. Mozart's th birthday On 27th January , all the church bells in Salzburg were rung simultaneously at the exact hour of his birth, in honour of Mozart's th birthday.
Symphony No. Mozart's Symphony No. Mozart's Divertimento: A Musical Joke Mozart's A Musical Joke also known as Divertimento for two horns and string quartet, is thought to have been written to be intentionally as a funny piece, clumsy, mechanical and over-repetitive.
Mozart Statue A Mozart monument stands in Salzburg, Mozart's birthplace, which is 3m in height which has been there for over years. Mozart News See more Mozart News. He created his own distinct style, blending traditional and contemporary. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on the 27 January in Salzburg and was already considered a genius as a child. He made his first attempts at composition at the tender age of six. He created twenty-four operas including such famous works as "The Magic Flute", "Don Giovanni", and "The Marriage of Figaro", 17 masses and over 50 symphonies.
He knew how to blend traditional and contemporary elements to create his own distinctive style, which is characterized by thematic and tonal variety, melded with a high degree of formal discipline. Following his break with the archbishop of Salzburg, Mozart moved to Vienna in , where a year later he married singer Constanze Weber. In , he was appointed court chamber composer. While the rest of the Symphony is first-rate, it is certainly the remarkable writing of the finale that has earned the piece the nickname of Jupiter , king of the gods.
Commissioned in a mysterious fashion by a nobleman who wished to pass it off as his own work, as a memorial to his wife, it has attracted a huge amount of myth and conjecture. It is, however, certain that Mozart was genuinely haunted by premonitions of death as he composed it, and that it was used — at least in part — as his own requiem. Piano Concerto No. It forms an apt summation of the incredible variety of his art, with the diverse music allotted to all the different characters and situations displaying his outstanding range of invention and style.
Comic and serious by turns this finally triumphant opera is one of the best Mozart works. Piano Sonata No. But there is more to the Sonata than that — the opening movement is a particularly clever and charming set of variations, while the slow movement is a graceful minuet and trio.
It took the composer just four days to write the piece, which is a mature production full of compositional ingenuity and wit, and among the best Mozart works. There are four movements: the substantial first movement begins with a slow introduction, the second is a slow movement in siciliano rhythm which has pastoral associations, though not necessarily Sicilian in origin , the third is a standard minuet and trio, and the fourth is a lively finale.
He was ambitious and believed he could do more somewhere else. In August , Mozart set out on a trip to find more prosperous employment. There were several employment positions that initially proved promising, but all eventually fell through. He began to run out of funds and had to pawn several valuable personal items to pay traveling and living expenses. The lowest point of the trip was when his mother fell ill and died on July 3, Back in Salzburg in , Mozart produced a series of church works, including the Coronation Mass.
He also composed another opera for Munich, Idomeneo in He was treated as a mere servant, quartered with the help, and forbidden from performing before the Emperor for a fee equal to half his yearly salary in Salzburg.
A quarrel ensued and Mozart offered to resign his post. Mozart decided to settle in Vienna as a freelance performer and composer and for a time lived with friends at the home of Fridolin Weber. Mozart quickly found work in Vienna, taking on pupils, writing music for publication, and playing in several concerts.
Knowing his father would disapprove of the marriage and the interruption in his career, young Mozart quickly wrote his father denying any idea of marriage. However, later correspondence from Mozart indicated that he and his father disagreed considerably on this matter. He was in love with Constanze and the marriage was being strongly encouraged by her mother, so in some sense, he felt committed. The couple was finally married on August 4, In the meantime, Leopold did finally consent to the marriage.
Constanze and Mozart had six children, though only two survived infancy, Karl Thomas and Franz Xaver. As turned to , Mozart became enthralled with the work of Bach and George Frederic Handel and this, in turn, resulted in several compositions in the Baroque style and influenced much of his later compositions, such as passages in Die Zauberflote The Magic Flute and the finale of Symphony Number During this time, Mozart met Joseph Haydn and the two composers became admiring friends.
When Haydn visited Vienna, they sometimes performed impromptu concerts with string quartets. Between and Mozart wrote six quartets dedicated to Haydn. With the substantial returns from concerts and publishing, he and Constanze enjoyed a lavish lifestyle. They lived in one of the more exclusive apartment buildings of Vienna, sent their son, Karl Thomas, to an expensive boarding school, kept servants, and maintained a busy social life.
In , Mozart and Constanze traveled to Salzburg to visit his father and sister. The visit was somewhat cool, as Leopold was still a reluctant father-in-law and Nannerl was a dutiful daughter. But the stay promoted Mozart to begin writing a mass in C Minor, of which only the first two sections, "Kyrie" and "Gloria," were completed. In , Mozart became a Freemason, a fraternal order focused on charitable work, moral uprightness, and the development of fraternal friendship.
Mozart was well regarded in the Freemason community, attending meetings and being involved in various functions. From to , Mozart divided his time between self-produced concerts as soloist, presenting three to four new piano concertos in each season. Theater space for rent in Vienna was sometimes hard to come by, so Mozart booked himself in unconventional venues such as large rooms in apartment buildings and ballrooms of expensive restaurants.
During one five-week period, he appeared in 22 concerts, including five he produced and performed as the soloist. In a typical concert, he would play a selection of existing and improvisational pieces and his various piano concertos.
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