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The Life Of Amadeus Mozart

::::The Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart::::

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He is one the most popular composers of European classical music in history. Mozart began composing when he was just five years old. When Mozart was six he was playing for many royalties. His father, Leopold, felt that it was a good idea to take the family to Paris and London for Mozart to show off his skills. He had his first music published and wrote his earliest symphonies. They arrived in 1763 and left in 1766. In Italy Mozart wrote two operas, Mitridate, and Lucio Silla and a serenata and he became familiar with Italian styles. From 1774 to 1777, Mozart was in Salzburg where he worked masses, symphonies, and all his violin concertos, six piano sonatas, serenades and his first piano concerto. In 1779 through 1780 Mozart was in Salzburg again playing in the cathedral and at court, composing sacred works, symphonies and concertos. The Marriage of Figaro, was the first of three operas which premiered at the Burg Theater in 1786. In 1787, Don Giovanni another famous work premiered in Prague at the National Theater. Mozart composed dance music for the Vienna court and publishers began to pay fees for the rights to publish his works.



Mozart composed over six hundred works which included twenty one stage and opera works, fifteen masses, over fifty symphonies, twenty five piano concertos, twelve violin concertos, twenty seven concert arias, seventeen piano sonatas, twenty six string quartets, and many other pieces. Mozart's music style was really unique and unlike any others in that time. He included different musical styles and elements from different countries into his works which is what gave it its uniqueness and why it was so complex. His most famous operas were The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cose fan tutte. His last three church pieces of work were Mass in C Minor, Ave Verum Corpus and Requiem which was never completed....