The life of: wolfgang amadeus mozart

Talatala, Yella Siy, Michelle

Lemi, Chynna Lim, Jermaine

w.a. mozart1756-1791

F

ull name: Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Gottlieb Mozart

B

irth place: Salzburg, Austria

B

irth date: January 27, 1756

P

arents: Leopold Mozart (composer, violinist, concertmaster) and Anna Maria

Pertl

S

ibling: Maria Anna Mozart

SALZBURG, AUSTRIA

w.a. mozart as a child

Age 3-5: Played the keyboards and clavier; composed minuets

Teenage years: mastered the piano, violin, and harpsichord

At age 8 (1764), he came to London

where played in public, and before

George III and his Queen. To the Queen

he dedicated six sonatas, and got fifty

guineas for them

In the year 1763-

1766, Mozart ,

together with his

father and his sister

were able to tour

Europe. Mozart was

able to play for Louis

XV at Versailles

during this trip.

Mozart was able to

complete his first

opera entitled, La

Finta Semplice

( The Simple

Pretense) in the

year 1768.

In the year 1772,

Mozart was appointed

concertmaster in the

orchestra of the

Archbishop of

Salzburg. He was able

to write many sacred

works during this

period.

Mozart was married

to Constanze Weber

in Vienna's St.

Stephen's Cathedral

in the year 1782.

On April of the year

1787, Ludwig Van

Beethoven arrives

in Vienna to study

with Mozart.

On the day of his

final public concert,

Mozart played his

last piano concerto,

No.27 in B flat.

In the year 1791, Mozart

started to compose the

Requiem. Due to overwork

in composing this piece,

Mozart suffered from

depression and delusions

that he has been poisoned.

On December 4, 1791,

Mozart gave his pupil,

Süssmayr instructions

on how to complete

the Requiem. Mozart

died the day after.

Years of travel

M

ozart's musical ability started to

become apparent when he was

a toddler. Mozart received

intensive musical training from

his father. He developed very

rapidly and began to compose

his own works at the age of five.

D

uring his young years, Mozart

completed several journeys in

Europe, beginning with an

exhibition in 1762 at the Court

of the Prince of Bavaria in

Munich, then in the same year

at the imperial Court in Vienna.

T

hen a long concert tour (three and a

half years) took him with his father

to the courts of Munich, Mannheim,

Paris, London, The Hague, again to

Paris and back home via Zurich,

Donaueschingen, and Munich.They

went to Vienna again in late 1767

and remained there until December

1768.

D

uring the first of these trips he met in Bologna G.B.

Martini, and was accepted as a member of the

famous Accademia Filarmonica.

A

highlight of the Italian journey, which became a

semi-legendary tale about Mozart, occurred when

he listened to Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere once in

performance, then wrote it out in its entirety from

memory (he returned a second time to correct

minor errors).

I

n September 1777 Mozart began a tour of Europe,

accompanied only by his mother, that took them to

Munich, Mannheim and Paris (where she died).

D

uring his trips, Mozart met a great number of

musicians, and knew the works of other great

composers (among them J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel,

Joseph Haydn). Even non-musicians caught his

attention: he was so taken by the sound created

by Benjamin Franklin’s Glass harmonica, he

composed several pieces of music for it.

J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel, Joseph Haydn

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