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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) was a prolific composer and wrote in many genres. Perhaps his best-admired work is in opera, piano concerto, piano sonata, symphony, string quartet, and string quintet. Mozart also wrote many violin sonatas, and other forms of chamber music, violin concertos, and other concertos for one or more solo ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [a] [b] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of ...
- 27 January 1756, Getreidegasse 9, Salzburg
- Mozart family
- 5 December 1791 (aged 35), Vienna
- Constanze Mozart
Mozart's approach to composition. A surviving letter of Mozart's to his father Leopold (31 July 1778) indicates that he considered composition an active process: You know that I plunge myself into music, so to speak—that I think about it all day long—that I like experimenting—studying—reflecting. One cannot quite determine from these ...
List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; The Complete Mozart Edition; References This page was last edited on 4 April 2024, at 10:33 (UTC). Text is available ...
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The later 1780s were the height of his success, with the string quartets dedicated to Haydn (who called Mozart the greatest living composer), the three great operas on Lorenzo Da Ponte’s librettos— The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790)—and his superb late symphonies. In his last year he composed ...
The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K. 457, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed and completed in 1784, with the official date of completion recorded as 14 October 1784 in Mozart's own catalogue of works. [1] It was published in December 1785 together with the Fantasy in C minor, K. 475, as Opus 11 by the publishing firm Artaria, Mozart's ...
Mozart. Symphony No. 22 in C major, K. 162, is a symphony composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in April 1773. The symphony has the scoring of two oboes, two French horns in C, two trumpets in C (in first and third movements), and strings.
