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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 ...
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 the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire.
- 27 January 1756, Getreidegasse 9, Salzburg
- Mozart family
- 5 December 1791 (aged 35), Vienna
- Constanze Mozart
A. Abendempfindung. Adagio and Allegro in F minor for a mechanical organ, K. 594. Adagio and Fugue in C minor (Mozart) Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte. Die Alte (song) An Chloe.
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12 Variations in E♭ major on the Romance "Je suis Lindor" from "Le Barbier de Seville" by Pierre Beaumarchais, music by Antoine-Laurent Baudron, K. 354 6 Variations in F major on the aria "Salve tu, Domine" from the opera "I filosofi immaginarii" by Giovanni Paisiello , K. 398
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died after a short illness on 5 December 1791, aged 35. His reputation as a composer, already strong during his lifetime, rose rapidly in the years after his death, and he became (as he has remained to this day) one of the most celebrated of all composers. Shortly after Mozart's death, biographers began to piece together ...
Playbill for the opening performance of Die Zauberflöte, 30 September 1791. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's operas comprise 22 musical dramas in a variety of genres. [a] They range from the small-scale, derivative works of his youth to the full-fledged operas of his maturity. Three of the works were abandoned before completion and were not ...
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 ...
