Synopsis Born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician capable of playing multiple instruments who started playing in public at the age of 6. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's was the sole-surviving son of Leopold and Maria Pertl Mozart. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his father returned from their last stay in Italy in March, 1773. ... Making It in Vienna Back in Salzburg in 1779, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart produced a series of church works, including the Coronation Mass. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart quickly found work in Vienna, taking on pupils, writin...

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It is a fairly well known film by Peter Shaffer on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life with a very interesting dramatic story. Amadeus covers the time that Mozart spent mostly in Vienna, the musical center of Europe at the time. ... Amadeus begins in the 1820s, with an aging Antonio Salieri screaming "Mozart! ... This person is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ... Overall, Amadeus seems to be an achievement rich of details and powerful drama that cover one of the most important stages of the life of one of the greatest classical period composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ...

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December 4, 1792 was the date that the great Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died. ... Amadeus exemplifies Salieri's ordinariness against Mozart genius. ... Mozart's personality in Amadeus is portrayed as childish, vulgar, and unfit. ... Therefore, Amadeus is still a treat to watch with dramatic twists to Mozart's life. Aside from winning an Oscar, it also awakened many, I believe, to the musical talent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ...

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed many operas, symphonies, and pieces of music that your guarunteed to know at least one by heart. Born Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, most people called him Mozart or Wolfgang. Mozart, baptized Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was born in Salzburg, Austria, on January 27, 1756 to Leopold, Kapellmeister to the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, and Anna Maria Mozart. ... Wolfgang's musicianship greatly impressed his sister though. ... The Mozarts returned to Salzburg in 1771. ...

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the best composers in history. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, January 27, 1756 (EarlyMusic.com). ... Wolfgang was also interested in the sound of violin and piano and studied them in many countries. ... When Wolfgang was in Paris, he performed five sonatas in the procession that he wrote when he was ten, and people walking through were impressed by his musical compositions. ... He moved back to Salzburg where the theater paid him the best salary for each opera production, about 150 florins a year (Wolfgang-amadeus.at). ...

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus who was born in Salzburg in 1756 was a composer in the classic period, which is considered one of the most brilliant composers that ever lived. ... Mozart was thought by his father how to play the piano since his father was a violinist and composer. By age six Mozart had become an outstanding performer on the clavier, violin, and organ. ... The young Mozart absorbed the musical styles of great composers, piano players and opera writers. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was well known by a lot of important people but he also new a lot of people fo...

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a man born into an amazing musical talent. ... The movie AMADEUS illustrates Mozart's life as seen by another composer, Salieri. ... Mozart and his wife had a loving yet conflicting relationship. ... When she finds Salieri at Mozart's side, she orders him out, against what Salieri states is Mozart's will. ... In the end, Mozart's wife wound up basically asking Mozart's father to get out of their house. ...

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 The Young Mozart Musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to Leopold Mozart and his wife Anna Maria Pertl in Salzburg, Austria on January 27, 1756. ... The next year the Mozart's continued on to Paris, where Wolfgang composed the Paris Symphony. ... Wolfgang asked Aloysia to marry him and she agreed. ... And so, the curtain falls on the tale of the life of the great Wolfgang Amadeus, and though we will never see another quite like him, his marvelous compositions will live on through the years. Amadeus "Amadeus", the film spans ...

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A Comparison of Mozart's Piano Sonata in B flat K281 and Sonata in B flat K570 Although nowadays it is popularly believed that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) is admired most notably as the supreme master of instrumental, sacred and opera music by no means does that mean his piano output occupied an inferior position in his compositional legacy. ... Written in Vienna, 1789, Sonata in B flat K570 is considered one of Mozart's finest sonatas. ... However as Mozart gives no specific tempo markings the definition of Allegro is somewhat debatable. ... Mozart's attempt to rev...

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Mozart in All His Fine Glory Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ... This is where Wolfgang had been blessed with his abilities and talent. ... The world must have stopped then in 1791 due to his untimely demise at the age of thirty-five (Wolfgang, A Mozart Timeline, Sherrane). While Wolfgang's stay on this plush, green earth was short visited, he had compiled a vast array of works. ... It is "said" that Mozart had expired shortly prior to 0100 hours of Rheumatic fever (A Mozart Timeline, Wolfgang). ...

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In my 17th year (1787) as harpsichordist, I visited Vienna and was granted an opportunity to play for the legendary composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. I performed brilliantly, and deeply impressed Mozart. ...

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Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg. ... Mozart was educated by his father, Leopold Mozart. ... This concerto was Mozart's last work before he died. ... Mozart does not introduce a second orchestral subject. ... Mozart uses the lower brass to emphasise this impression. ...

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart was born in Salzburg, 27 January 1786. He was son to Leopold Mozart. ... Though they was always a risk involved with touring through Europe one case Wolfgang, ill with something diagnosed as "scarlet fever rash- but with the help of local physicians he was back on his feet in just a couple of weeks. ... Mozart's music is still heard to this day. ... Mozart brought something that Germany could be proud of. ...

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Derived from the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's musical catalogue, the Köchel Series does not sit far from Maggs' major conceptual concerns. ... The Köchel Series can be seen as an abstract biography of Mozart, an index of the composer's development as an artist from life to death. For example, K. 1a is a short piece of harpsichord Mozart composed when he was 5 years old, and K. 626 is the Requiem he was working on just prior to his death in 1791 at the age of 35. ... In these prints that are approximate the proportions of LP covers, Maggs' bracketing revives ...

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On Sunday, December 07, 2003, I attended the Mozart and The Height of Classicism concert that was held in the Lincoln Theater of the New World Symphony orchestral academy. ... The program's title was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Chaconne from Idomeneo. ... As the pianist and conductor expressed the form of improvisation as Mozart did, which I will explain further on my critique. ... He did ask that only those that did know how to write music to write something classical that would sound something like Mozart so he would incorporate it for the next piece. This sounded to me like the real ...

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In speaking of the great musicians, perhaps another name comes to mind; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart is clearly the greatest musician who ever lived. ... Mozart composed within the arena of his own mind. ... According to Rowell, initially within a Mozart composition, Mozart introduces a primary melodic theme. ... Mozart's comprehension of mathematics and melody is inequitable to other composers. ...

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This 1985 Academy-Award winner for best picture is based on the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ... He goes into the story of his life and Mozart's part in it. ... The basic characters were Mozart, Salieri, Emperor, Mozart's wife, his father, and the noblemen. ... Enter Mozart. ... Mozart was an inspirational man to me. ...

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Neefe exclaimed, "He would surely become a second Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart if he were to continue as he has begun" (Kerman 355). ... The most influential friend he met was probably Mozart. Beethoven looked up to Mozart and actually went to Munich for a few weeks to ask Mozart to give him a theme for improvisation. Mozart also thought highly of him by exclaiming to his friends, "Keep your eyes on him; someday he will give the world something to talk about" (Orga 33). ... Although Mozart had fifty symphonies and Haydn had over 100, Beethoven's nine surpassed theirs because his were l...

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Don Giovanni forms the climax of Mozart's operatic work. ... The 31 years old Mozart conducted the premiere himself. ... At that time Mozart composed the andromeda scene, K.272, for Josefa. ... For this performance Mozart had added Ottavio's aria "Dalla sua pace."" ... As to the music it is obvious that Mozart uses characteristic keys. ...

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American popular music (which also borrowed most of its "musical vocabulary " from the European tradition), "classical " music continues to be adopted, explored, and adapted in many cultures from the past and some of its most-recognized names among the composers are Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ... (Mozart and Schubert were typical of shifting from major to minor). ... In the late Romanticism music, musicians only played what was written down yet in Mozart's symphony where some basic things were not written down because musicians knew them, onl...

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Music is an ever changing phenomenon. Innovators constantly push the boundaries of the definition of music. New genres are built on the foundations of previous musical innovations and as composers and musicians create more and more new music, the whole universe of music becomes more diverse. The div...

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In the Enlightenment period, there were different views concerning life and religion. The beliefs of many changed from one to the next. Changes in the economy and social standings were very prominent but the idea of progress was most important. The advances in science and technology were said to hav...

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As a rule, Classicism can be characterized as an issue in writing, visual workmanship, music, or construction modeling that draws on the styles of antiquated Greece and Rome, particularly fifth- and fourth-century b.c.e. Athens and late Republican Augustan Rome. The term can be confounding, in light of the fact that it has tackled numerous different implications. It can allude to a general stylish portrayed by clarity, style, and symmetry, or to a style that is by and large considered epitomizing enormity or flawlessness. Case in point, the vast majority would distinguish the Boston Pops as en...

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