About Mozart

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    Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a Austrian composer and is still widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music, just like Beethoven.

    He was born in January 27, 1756, Salzburg, and lived a short life of 35 years. Mozart wrote in every genre that he knew when he was alive, and was very successful in every one. Mozart was the son of Johann Georg Leopold Mozart, who was the author of a famous violin-playing manual. Mozart and his sister Maria Anna were the only two of their seven children to survive. (Mozart’s only brother died of smallpox.)

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart loved math and spoke five languages. He was taught mainly by this dad Leopold, but received many other musical education. When Mozart was eight, in 1764, he met Johann Christian Bach, and was taught composition by him for five months. Later, when Mozart moved to Vienna in 1781, Mozart and Haydn quickly became friends. Haydn became Mozart’s mentor, and they created many pieces together.

    We are unsure of how EXACTLY Mozart died, but we know when. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died on December 5, 1791 in Vienna. It took a whole week for a Berlin newspaper to announce that he had been poisoned, but a new study shows that he might have just died of a strep infection. Mozart’s last words were: “The taste of death is upon my lips… I feel something, that is not of this Earth.”


If you have any things I missed or things to share about Mozart, please comment down below!        



FAMOUS PEICES:

The Magic Flute

Rondo Alla Turca

Sull’aria (The Marriage of Figaro)

QUOTES:

“ Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius.“ - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe," - Robert Einstein

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