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Feb 21, 2024 · Requiem – ‘Confutatis’. By its very definition, Mozart’s Requiem is an immensely powerful, moving work. Best known of all its movements are the ‘Requiem aeternam’, earth-shattering ‘Lacrimosa’, and fateful ‘ Dies irae ’. But a sparkling gem lies within Mozart’s great masterpiece, waiting to be discovered. The ‘Confutatis ...
Stanley Sadie The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Musical Genius, Composer, Prodigy: At the time of his death Mozart was widely regarded not only as the greatest composer of the time but also as a bold and “difficult” one; Don Giovanni especially was seen as complex and dissonant, and his chamber music as ...
Family and early years. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl Mozart in Getreidegasse 9 in the city of Salzburg, the capital of the sovereign Archbishopric of Salzburg, in what is now Austria, then part of the Holy Roman Empire. His only sibling who survived past birth was an older sister: Maria Anna, nicknamed Nannerl.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791; pronounced MOHT-sart) was a composer (music writer), instrumentalist, and music teacher. His full baptised name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophillus Mozart. He was born in Salzburg (then a free archbishopric city within the Bavarian Imperial Circle / German Empire, now ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an Austrian composer (a writer of music) whose mastery of the whole range of contemporary (modern) instrumental and vocal forms—including the symphony, concerto, chamber music, and especially the opera—was unchallenged in his own time and perhaps in any other.
4 Spiegelkanons, K. Anh. 10.16. Canon for 12 Voices in G major, K. 348/382g. Canon for 2 Voices in C minor, K. 230/382b. Canon for 3 Voices in A major, K. 562. Canon for 3 Voices in B-flat major, K. 233/382d. Canon for 3 Voices in C minor, K. 229/382a. Canon for 3 Voices in F major, K. 507.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on the 27 January 1756 in Salzburg and was already considered a genius as a child. He made his first attempts at composition at the tender age of six. He was the son of Leopold Mozart, violin instructor, court composer and deputy music director at the court of the prince-archbishop of Salzburg, and Anna Maria ...
