I woke up with the feeling of a velvet seat under me. The smell of fancy perfumes and aged wood filled the air. Where was I? I opened my eyes to come face-to-face with a long window in a longer hallway. The sound of classical music played on a piano filled my ears as I sat up from my dark red velvet, cushioned bench. Out the window I saw the victorian skyline of a country I hadn’t recognized, and from what I could tell it was probably European. How had I gotten here? The last thing that I remember was doing my homework and falling asleep. I guess I shouldn’t do homework at such a late time in the night. I walked on the wooden floor down the hallway to hear the piano music getting louder as I approached the door at the end. The door was light …show more content…
“I suppose the harp, that’s probably the only instrument I can’t seem to excel in” “Didn’t you play symphonies and stuff when you were only a child?” I asked. “Yes” Mozart said, “I learned how to play music when I was 3 years old. When I grew older, I traveled with my family to perform in tons different countries in Europe and I wrote symphonies. I was so young in fact, I wrote my 5th symphony when I was only 5 years old.” “That’s amazing!” I said. I never knew he created one of his best works when he was only five years old. “A great number of people considered me as a genius in classical music all through my life, through traveling in my teenage years, and up until now.” “Wow!” I said in awe.
“I married my beautiful wife, Constanze, in 1782. She’s only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.” Mozart continued, “Two years later we moved to Prague and that’s where we are now.”
“I wonder what it’s like to move all across the continent,” I muttered. I never traveled outside of the state much, and I haven’t even been outside the US, until now at
I found myself in the dining room observing everything and everyone. The dining room was set up to have an intimate feel to it. There were fresh flowers on every table and each table had some privacy. The
Sadie, Stanley. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Essays on his Life and his Music. United States: Oxford University Press. 1996, Print.
Mozart’s father, Leopold, was a composer, violinist, and assistant concert master at the Salzburg court. Due to the fact that his father was deeply involved in music, Mozart was influenced at a very young age. Mozart began learning how to play the piano as early as the age of three. Under his father’s advice, Mozart and his sister, Maria Anna, excelled greatly.
“Leopold Mozart, a court musician, began teaching Maria Anna, his first-born child, to play harpsichord when she was 8 years old. She progressed quickly, with 3-year-old Wolfgang often at her side.” Maria Anna was getting very good very quickly, with the help from her brother Wolferl. Both siblings helped eachother out , “Nannerl probably interpreted for Wolfgang and reinforced for Wolfgang what Leopold was trying to teach. She showed him that music is not only fun, but a way to communicate without words.” He learned from his sister the true meaning behind music, which made him grow as a performer. Support from family or friends is what separates a person from achieving their goals, or stumbling under the pressure, but both Maria Anna and Wolferl persevered with the help of each other and there dad and both achieved great
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the most prolific and important musical innovators we have ever seen. His style of music helped re-shape music and the Classical period. Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756. Mozart was a child prodigy, claiming most success as a youth. At the age of six, Mozart could play the harpsichord and violin, improvise fugues, write minuets, and read music perfectly. At the age of eight, he wrote a symphony and at eleven, an oratorio. Then amazingly, at the age of twelve he wrote an opera. Mozart's father was Leopold Mozart, a court musician. Both Mozart and Beethoven had help from their fathers in different ways. Mozart's father helped him travel around as a young musician and with this he traveled many places and seen many well-known people and aristocrats. With Mozart's early successes came many challenges to his life. He had greater expectations from the community and from his father. Unlike, Beethoven, Mozart was a bit spoiled as a youth and because of this he would not tolerate to be treated as a servant. He completely relied on his father to help him and would not work with the archbishop. This would become a problem when Mozart did not develop enough initiative and could not make decisions on his ow...
“The house is settling,” my Italian carer would say as the lights dimmed and glowed in her ghostly presence… but this wasn’t all the house did. I slept in my room. Well, not really slept. Sleep was never something I did much of, especially early on. My worries at seven pm far outweighed my need for sleep. Awake. Forever awake. My father had left me. My mother…
Convinced that Scott’s musical aptitude was far beyond his age, German professor of music Julius Weiss decided to increase the depth of his learning and mentor the talented eleven-year-old without charge. Here, he gained a greater knowledge of folk and opera music and their numerous elements. By the time he was a blossoming teenager, he had already mastered instruments such as the piano, violin, and cornet, all while singing and serving as a dance musician.
Marshall, Robert L. Mozart Speaks: Views on Music, Musicians, and the World. New York: Schirmer Books, 1991. Book.
"The Mozart Project- Biography." The Mozart Project. mozartproject.org, 25, Apr 1998. Web. 22 Jun 2010. .
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven are two of the greatest composers ever to write music. Both men lived in the early 18th and 19th century, but their music and influences are still felt today. The men faced similar experiences, yet they both lead very different lives. All together the pieces that these men composed amounts to over 300 published, and unpublished works of art. The people of their time period often had mixed feelings about these men, some “complained that Mozart’s music presented them with too many ideas and that his melodies moved from one to the next faster than audiences could follow, yet the ideas themselves seem effortless and natural, clear and unforced.” (Bonds 210-211) Beethoven’s criticisms ranged from ‘genius’ to grim dislike. Mozart and Beethoven were influenced by things going on around them such as: love, nature, and the Enlightenment.
The Genius of Mozart documentary it starts with Mozart’s father, Leopold Mozart, which Wolfgang Mozart had got his passion of music from. They were close with one another and developed a close bond that connected with no only Father and Son but as well as music. His father was not only his father; he was a teacher to Mozart. Mozart’s father said he was a light that was contributed to others, and that he would not belong to just one class. As Wolfgang Mozart grew up, he had to deal with an illness called arthritis. Leopold was close to his son and he knew everything about Mozart from top to bottom. Even things that we still to this day do not know about Mozart. Mozart uses music to express his emotions like many other composers do as well. Mozart
11:14 p.m.-I slowly ascend from my small wooden chair, and throw another blank sheet of paper on the already covered desk as I make my way to the door. Almost instantaneously I feel wiped of all energy and for a brief second that small bed, which I often complain of, looks homey and very welcoming. I shrug off the tiredness and sluggishly drag my feet behind me those few brief steps. Eyes blurry from weariness, I focus on a now bare area of my door which had previously been covered by a picture of something that was once funny or memorable, but now I can't seem to remember what it was. Either way, it's gone now and with pathetic intentions of finishing my homework I go to close the door. I take a peek down the hall just to assure myself one final time that there is nothing I would rather be doing and when there is nothing worth investigating, aside from a few laughs a couple rooms down, I continue to shut the door.
As an adult Mozart his career was not as successful as when he was younger. But he kept on composing anyway hoping one people would appreciate his work. He lived in poverty for the great majority of his life. In 1769 he became a concertmaster to the archbishop of Salzburg, which was another one of his jobs that afforded him little financial security. In 1777, he left on another concert tour. But, the courts of Europe ignored Mozart ‘s search for a more beneficial assignment. In 1782 he earned a living by selling compositions, giving public performances, and giving music lessons, which once again was a low paying job. The composer never did find a well paying job. The bizarre thing was is that even that he had ton of trouble finding jobs, he was still considered one of the leading composers of the late 1700s.
I love music and always have. My love for music has pushed me to learn to play the violin. I’ve played the violin for about 9 years, but have just started to get serious about it this summer. During the summer, I played in a pit for a play. The pit is basically live music and sound effects played by an extremely small orchestra in a 15” by 30” foot hole right before the stage.