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Mozart’s well-documented dislike of his native city formed the foundation of an image of Salzburg that has until recently served generations of writers on the composer. It is an image of a small claustrophobic backwater under the rule of a conservative and absolutist ecclesiastical court.
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Jun 24, 2019 · While Mitridate was in rehearsal in Italy, a decisive event occurred back home in Salzburg when Mozart's most important patron, the Count von Schrattenbach, died.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus) was born in Salzburg, Austria, on 27 January 1756. His father was Leopold Mozart (1719-1787), a violinist and composer, and his mother was Anna Maria Pertl, who added to the family income by making lace. Wolfgang was the youngest of the couple's seven children. Leopold...
Wolfgang's musical education continued in Italy from December 1769. The Mozart family was certainly undaunted by the uncomfortable travel arrangements of 18th-century Europe, and they went on a Grand Tour that took in Milan, Florence, Naples, and Rome (where he received a Papal knighthood). Equally undaunted by his tender age, the ducal court at Mi...
In March 1781, Mozart left Salzburg for the wider career horizons offered by Vienna. In the Austrian capital, he earned a living teaching, composing chamber music, and giving private concerts to the wealthy where he tried out his new compositions, often conducting from his keyboard. In 1782, he wrote the opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abd...
It was always Mozart's ambition to excel in the field of opera. In 1786, he completed his opera Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), which was based on the play La folle journée, ou le marriage de Figaroby Pierre Beaumarchais. The play had been notorious for its comical attacks on aristocratic morality and had been banned in Vienna. Mozart'...
Interspersed between the operas, Mozart composed many works of chamber music. "Perhaps his crowning achievement in chamber music is the pair of string quintets, K515 and 516 of 1787, works of a new richness, warmth and depth of feeling" (Sadie, 188). At the same time, Mozart's piano concertos of the mid-1780s, "forged a new kind of relationship bet...
The most famous works composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart include: 60 symphonies 24 string quartets 23 piano concertos 18 piano sonatas 16 Masses 5 violin concertos Mitridate, re di ponto opera – Mithridates, King of Pontus (1770) Coronation Mass (1779) Idomeneo opera (1781) Die Entführung aus dem Serail opera – The Abduction from the Harem (1782) ...
Mozart died in Vienna of ill health, likely a combination of kidney disease and rheumatic fever, on 5 December 1791. The composer did not leave enough money to avoid being buried in a simple unmarked grave in St. Mark's cemetery, and so the precise location of his remains is unknown today. Mozart's music influenced many later composers, from Ludwig...
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In August 1777, Mozart resigned his position at Salzburg and on 23 September ventured out once more in search of employment, with visits to Augsburg, Mannheim, Paris, and Munich. Mozart became acquainted with members of the famous orchestra in Mannheim, the best in Europe at the time.
Back in Salzburg, he was a mere public servant, paid — not a massive amount — to provide music on demand. On the road, the family were received by royalty and treated almost as equals. Just as would be the case for Mozart some years later, Leopold had no burning desire to return to the status quo.
Leopold, employed by Salzburg’s archbishop and given generous leaves of absence to display his son’s genius, was a stern master, determined to school Mozart and Nannerl not only in music but ...
Not only was he was getting away from Salzburg and heading for the bright lights, but he must also have suspected that in his new, so far half-finished opera, Idomeneo, he had a hit on his hands. Idomeneo had come as a commission from the elector of Bavaria, who was now resident in Munich.
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