Then it was part of the Holy Roman Empire. Wolfgang Amdeus Mozart was born on 27th January 1756 in Salzburg, as the son of Leopold Mozart, court violinist and.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl Mozart at 9 Getreidegasse in Salzburg, capital of the sovereign Archbishopric of Salzburg, in what is now Austria. Into the royal court comes a potential rival in the form of music prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce), whose lively melodies, tossed off effortlessly by the 26-year-old, are far superior to Salieri's.WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756 1791). Three decades previously, Salieri held an exalted position as the state composer in the Austrian Imperial palace of the 1700s.
He was Wolfgang’s only teacher in his earliest years, and taught his children languages and academic subjects as well as music.During Mozart’s formative years, his family made several European journeys in which he and Nannerl performed as child prodigies. Father and son were so close that these childhood accomplishments brought tears to Leopold’s eyes.Leopold eventually gave up composing when his son’s outstanding musical talents became evident. His first ink-spattered composition and his precocious efforts with the violin were on his own initiative, and came as a great surprise to Leopold. In the year of Mozart’s birth, his father published a violin textbook, “Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule”, which achieved some success.When Nannerl was seven she began keyboard lessons with her father, and her three-year-old brother would look on, evidently fascinated.Biographer Maynard Solomon notes that while Leopold was a devoted teacher to his children, there is evidence that Wolfgang was keen to make progress beyond what he was being taught. He was also an experienced teacher. Thomas Hulce eventually lost to F.His father Leopold (1719 – 1787) was deputy Kapellmeister to the court orchestra of the Archbishop of Salzburg, and a minor composer.
A particularly important influence was Johann Christian Bach, whom Mozart visited in London in 17. During this trip Mozart met a great number of musicians and acquainted himself with the works of other composers. A long concert tour spanning three and a half years followed, taking the family to the courts of Munich, Mannheim, Paris, London, The Hague, again to Paris, and back home via Zürich, Donaueschingen, and Munich.
Amadeus Mozart Series Of Five
Between April and December 1775, Mozart developed an enthusiasm for violin concertos, producing a series of five (the only ones he ever wrote), which steadily increased in their musical sophistication. Several of these early works are still performed today. The composer had a great number of friends and admirers in Salzburg and had the opportunity to work in many genres, composing symphonies, sonatas, string quartets, serenades, and a few minor operas. 165.After finally returning with his father from Italy on 13rd of March 1773, Mozart was employed as a court musician by the ruler of Salzburg, Prince-Archbishop Hieronymus Colloredo. The father hoped these visits would result in a professional appointment for his son in Italy but such hopes were never fulfilled.Toward the end of the final Italian journey Mozart wrote the first of his works to be still widely performed today, the solo cantata Exsultate, jubilate, K. He returned with his father later twice to Milan (August – December 1771 October 1772 – March 1773) for the composition and premieres of Ascanio in Alba (1771) and Lucio Silla (1772).
The situation worsened in 1775 when the court theater was closed, especially since the other theater in Salzburg was largely reserved for visiting troupes.Two long expeditions in search of work (both Leopold and Wolfgang were looking) interrupted this long Salzburg stay: they visited Vienna, from 14th of July to 26th of September 1773, and Munich, from 6th of December 1774 to March 1775. One reason was his low salary, 150 florins a year Mozart also longed to compose operas and Salzburg provided only rare occasions for these. 271 of early 1777, considered by critics to be a breakthrough work.Despite these artistic successes, Mozart grew increasingly discontented with Salzburg and redoubled his efforts to find a position elsewhere. In 1776 he turned his efforts to piano concertos, culminating in the E-flat concerto K.
He fell into debt and took to pawning valuables. One of his letters from Paris hints at a possible post as an organist at Versailles but Mozart was not interested in such an appointment. There were prospects of employment in Mannheim, but they came to nothing, and Mozart left for Paris on 14th of March 1778 to continue his search. He also fell in love with Aloysia Weber, one of four daughters in a musical family. Since Archbishop Colloredo would not give Leopold leave to travel, Mozart’s mother Anna Maria accompanied him.Mozart became acquainted with members of the famous orchestra in Mannheim, the best in Europe at the time. On the wall is a portrait of Mozart’s mother, who had died in 1778.In August 1777 Mozart resigned his Salzburg position and, on 23 September, ventured out once more in search of employment, with visits to Augsburg, Mannheim, Paris, and Munich.
The following March the composer was summoned to Vienna, where his employer, Archbishop Colloredo, was attending the celebrations for the accession of Joseph II to the Austrian throne. Mozart finally reached home on 15th of January 1779 and took up the new position but his discontent with Salzburg was undiminished.In January 1781 Mozart’s opera Idomeneo premiered with “considerable success” in Munich. In Munich he again encountered Aloysia, now a very successful singer, but she made it plain that she was no longer interested in him. After leaving Paris on 26th of September 1778, he tarried in Mannheim and Munich, still hoping to obtain an appointment outside Salzburg. The yearly salary was 450 florins but Wolfgang was reluctant to accept. There had been delays in calling a doctor – probably, according to Halliwell, because of a lack of funds.While Wolfgang was in Paris, Leopold was pursuing opportunities for him back in Salzburg and, with the support of local nobility, secured him a post as court organist and concertmaster.
Hoping fervently that he would obediently follow Colloredo back to Salzburg, Leopold exchanged intense letters with his son, urging him to be reconciled with their employer. Mozart decided to settle in Vienna as a freelance performer and composer.The quarrel with the archbishop went harder for Mozart because his father sided against him. The following month, permission was granted but in a grossly insulting way: the composer was dismissed literally “with a kick in the ass”, administered by the archbishop’s steward, Count Arco. The resulting quarrel came to a head in May: Mozart attempted to resign and was refused.
He also prospered as a composer, and in 1782 completed the opera “Die Entführung aus dem Serail” (“The Abduction from the Seraglio”), which premiered on 16th of July 1782 and achieved a huge success. He performed often as a pianist, notably in a competition before the Emperor with Muzio Clementi on 24th of December 1781, and he soon “had established himself as the finest keyboard player in Vienna”. Solomon characterizes Mozart’s resignation as a “revolutionary step”, and it greatly altered the course of his life.Mozart’s new career in Vienna began well. The debate ended when Mozart was dismissed by the archbishop, freeing himself both of his employer and his father’s demands to return.
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