![]() ![]() 1–5, were recorded in the Nannerl Notenbuch. ![]() At the age of five, he was already composing little pieces, which he played to his father who wrote them down. He could play it faultlessly and with the greatest delicacy, and keeping exactly in time. In the fourth year of his age his father, for a game as it were, began to teach him a few minuets and pieces at the clavier. He often spent much time at the clavier, picking out thirds, which he was ever striking, and his pleasure showed that it sounded good. Years later, after her brother’s death, she reminisced: When Nannerl was seven, she began keyboard lessons with her father while her three-year-old brother looked on. During the year of his son’s birth, Leopold published a violin textbook, Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule, which achieved success. Leopold became the orchestra’s deputy Kapellmeister in 1763. In 1743, he was appointed as fourth violinist in the musical establishment of Count Leopold Anton von Firmian, the ruling Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. Four years later, he married Anna Maria in Salzburg. Leopold Mozart, a native of Augsburg, was a minor composer and an experienced teacher. Mozart’s birthplace at Getreidegasse 9, Salzburg He generally called himself “Wolfgang Amadè Mozart” as an adult, but his name had many variants.įigure 2. The baptismal record gives his name in Latinized form as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. This was the capital of the Archbishopric of Salzburg, an ecclesiastic principality in what is now Austria, then part of the Holy Roman Empire. He was the youngest of seven children, five of whom died in infancy. His elder sister was Maria Anna (1751–1829), nicknamed “Nannerl.” Mozart was baptized the day after his birth at St. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on 27 January 1756 to Leopold Mozart (1719–1787) and Anna Maria, née Pertl (1720–1778), at 9 Getreidegassein Salzburg. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence on subsequent Western art music is profound Ludwig van Beethoven composed his own early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote that “posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years.” Biography Family and childhood He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons. The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. At 17, he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756–5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. 1780, detail from portrait by Johann Nepomuk della Croce In his short life, Mozart was able to produce a tremendous amount of music that moves people to this day.Figure 1. Some people think he was poisoned by another composer who was jealous of his talent, others think that all of the traveling when he was young made him unhealthy as an adult. There are a lot of stories about Mozart's death. The two sons who lived to be adults never married or had children.Īlthough many people recognized the greatness of Mozart's music while he was alive, he was never totally successful. Mozart and Constanze were happy, but poor. The Mozarts had six children. Mozart’s father, who was very involved in Mozart's life, did not approve of the marriage. Mozart was not very good at getting commissions and he was really bad at managing money. Commissions were the only real way a composer could make money in the Classical Period. Mozart taught piano lessons and tried to get people in Vienna to commission music from him - that means to pay him to write music for them. In 1781 Mozart traveled to Vienna, where he would live for the rest of his life. ![]()
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