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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart…just the sound of his name represents greatness and uncanny levels of ability to anyone who knows Western music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart represents one of the greatest peaks in the history of music and he is one of the finest and most popular musical composers of all time. From his phenomenal early childhood to his works that are more known as masterpieces, Mozart has remained a figure of music greatness.
On January 27, 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, to Leopold Mozart and his wife, Anna Maria Pertl. The website entitled The Mozart Project states that Leopold broke the good news to Johann Jakob Lotter (a friend and printer in his home town of Augsburg), “. . . I must inform [you] that on 27 January, at 8 p.m., my dear wife was happily delivered of a boy; but the placenta had to be removed. She was therefore astonishingly weak. Now, however (God be praised) both child and mother are well. She sends her regards to you both. The boy is called Joannes Chrisostomos, Wolfgang, Gotlieb (par. 8 ).” Wolfgang and his older sister name Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia (Nannerl) both had a great gift for music when they were young, and their father devoted his energy and knowledge to tutor them. Wolfgang’s father, Leopold Mozart, assistant choir-master and court musician to the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, was one of the most distinguished musicians of his time. In Sacheverell Sitwell book Mozart, he describes how Leopold Mozart was the author of the best method for violin-playing written up to that period, and was a man of thorough education and sterling character (22). The Mozart Project tells how Leopold recognized his childrens’ special abilities, Leopold began to devote extra effort to their educations with an emphasis on musical instruction (par. 11). Wolfgang’s hearing was so correct that he would remember the tone pitch of a violin which he had heard even weeks before. Sitwell says, Mozart sensitiveness was...