Mozart biography facts record
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Biographies of Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died after a short illness on 5 December , aged 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 accounts of his life, relying on the testimony of those still living who knew him, as well as surviving correspondence. The creation of Mozart biographies has been an activity of scholars ever since.
Early biographers
[edit]Friedrich Schlichtegroll was a teacher and a scholar who published Mozart's obituary in The obituary was part of a volume of obituaries referred to as Nekrolog. The two had never met. Most of the information was obtained from Nannerl, Mozart's sister, and Johann Andreas Schachtner, a friend of the family in Mozart's early years. Therefore, what Schlichtegroll knew and wrote about was the period before Vienna.
Franz Xaver Niemetschek was a citizen of Prague, a teacher and writer. Niemetschek allegedly met with Mozart and claimed to have been acquainted with Mozart's friends in Prague. After Mozart's death, his widow Constanze sent Carl, the elder son, to live with him from Through these rel
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Biography of Mozart
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Biography
Johannes Chrystostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (–) was arguably the most gifted musician in the history of classical music. His inspiration is often described as 'divine', but he worked assiduously, not only to become the great composer he was, but also a conductor, virtuoso pianist, organist and violinist. Mozart's music embraces opera, symphony, concerto, chamber, choral, instrumental and vocal music, revealing an astonishing number of imperishable masterpieces.
Mozart was born in Salzburg, in Mozart's father, Leopold, was an ambitious composer and violinist.
Though he was and still is considered a genius, he was also tactless, arrogant and had a scatological sense of humour.
Mozart composed his first opera, Apollo et Hyacinthus when he was only A year later the Emperor Joseph II commissioned him to write La finta semplice.
In August he married Constanze Weber. The Mozarts' marriage seemed to be a happy one. Constanze was easy-going, free-spending and usually pregnant. Only two of their six children survived.
Post-marriage, some of Mozart's best started to appear -the Haffner and Linz symphonies and five string quartets, for example.
Between and , he composed nine piano concertos and three of these concurrently with The Marr