![]() ![]() The great piano concertos and the string quartets dedicated to his "dear friend" Josef Haydn were also composed during this period. Mozart's greatest success was Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) (1786), composed for the Vienna Opera. The young pair visited Salzburg in 1783 there, the Kyrie and Gloria of Mozart's great Mass in C Minor, composed in Vienna and never finished, were performed. In 1782 the now-popular Mozart married Constanze Weber from Germany, much to his father's dismay. His concerts were a great success, and the emperor, Joseph II, encouraged him, later engaging him as court composer. Mozart's career in Vienna began promisingly, and he was soon commissioned to write The Abduction from the Seraglio (1782). Summoned by von Colloredo to Vienna in 1781 he was dismissed after a series of arguments. He was commissioned to compose a new opera for Munich, Idomeneo (1781), that proved he was a consummate master of opera seria. When he returned to Salzburg he was given the position of court organist (1779) and produced a splendid series of church works, including the famous Coronation Mass. With his mother he traveled to France, where he composed the Paris Symphony (1778) but he was unable to find a permanent position. Wishing to secure a better position outside Salzburg, he obtained permission to undertake another journey in 1777. In this capacity Mozart composed a large number of sacred and secular works. In 1772, von Colloredo retained Wolfgang as concertmaster at a token salary. The latter, at first sympathetic to the Mozarts, later became irritated by Wolfgang's prolonged absences and stubborn ways. In 1772, Archbishop von Schrattenbach died, to be succeeded by Hieronymus von Colloredo. In two further Italian journeys he wrote two more operas for Milan, Ascanio in Alba (1771) and Lucio Silla (1772). This first Italian trip culminated in a new opera, Mitridate, re di Ponto, composed for Milan. In 1769-70, Leopold and Wolfgang undertook a tour through Italy. In 1768 he composed his first opera, La Finta Semplice, which had its premiere in Salzburg. In Paris, the young Mozart published his first works, four sonatas for clavier with accompanying violin (1764). From 1763 - 66, the Mozart children displayed their talents to audiences in Germany, Paris, at court in Versailles, and London (where Wolfgang wrote his first symphonies and began a friendship with Johann Christian Bach, whose became a great musical influence on Wolfgang). In 1762 the Mozart children played at court in Vienna the Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Emperor Francis I, received them. ![]() Both children played the keyboard, but Wolfgang became a violin virtuoso as well. When he was 6, he and his older sister, Maria Anna (who was nicknamed "Nannerl"), performed a series of concerts to Europe's courts and major cities. Wolfgang began composing minuets at the age of 5 and symphonies at 9. Leopold was a successful composer, violinist and assistant concertmaster at the Salzburg court. 27, 1756, the son of Leopold Mozart and his wife, Anna Maria Pertl. Probably the greatest genius in Western musical history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, Jan. ![]() | Vocal Jazz | Choral | Christmas | Instructional | ArrangementsĬlassical | Opera | Musicals | Personality | Young Singers | Disney | Videos | Songs | The Artists Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart BiographyĬlick Here for Arrangements, Compositions and Recordingsīorn: 1756. Home | Doo Wop | Barbershop | World | Contemporary | Christian ![]() In Celebration of the Human Voice - The Essential Musical Instrument ![]()
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