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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 ...
Mozart and dance. The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote a great deal of dance music, both for public use and as elements of larger works such as operas, quartets, and symphonies. According to the reminiscences of those who knew him, the composer himself enjoyed dancing very much; he was skillful and danced often.
Signature. 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 ...
- 27 January 1756, Getreidegasse 9, Salzburg
- Mozart family
- 5 December 1791 (aged 35), Vienna
- Constanze Mozart
Eine kleine Nachtmusik [a] ( Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major ), K. 525, is a 1787 composition for a chamber ensemble by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). The German title means "a little night music". [b] The work is written for an ensemble of two violins, viola, cello and double bass, but is often performed by string orchestras. [3]
- 10 August 1787
- G major
- Four
- 1827, Offenbach am Main
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 ...
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.
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 ...
