Research Paper On Wolfgang Amadeus

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the most famous classical composers in the era. Throughout Mozarts' life he composed over 600 pieces including 22 operas. He was born and raised in the catholic church and continued that religion throughout his lifetime. Antonio Salieri was an Italian classical composer, teacher and conductor. Salieri was very popular in the 18th century. He dominated the Italian opera in Vienna. While in Vienna he also worked as part of the Habsburg Monarchy. He was named one of the most important teachers of his time. He had over 40 operas but about 17 of them were really popular. I don't feel like the movie was a good representation of who Antonio was. In the movie it seemed as if he wasn't really important

Mozart was Antonio's idol. He looked up to him. He was infatuated with his skills with music. Antonio was jealous of Mozart for the simple fact that his father was such a huge supporter of his music career. Antonio's father was never involved in his compositions except for discouragement, he wasn't able to share his love for classical music like Mozart was. As they both got a little older, Salieri's love for Mozarts music didn't change but I feel his opinion of his character did. At one of Mozarts concerts, Antonio witnessed him rolling around on the ground with a girl and being very disrespectful and vulgar towards her. Another incident was, Antonio taught a girl who he had strong feelings for, but since he had sworn to God that he wouldn't touch a woman, he had never tried to come on to her. The young lady got a part in one of Mozart's operas and Antonio found out he had been having sexual relations with the girl. This hurt Salieri and made him start to hate Mozart. Mozart never seemed to notice Salieri, until he realized that he could be a big help to him in his career as a composer, but Salieri had different ideas about that situation. He would help Mozart but would also do sly stuff to make him fall right back to where he was. It was all built on basic

Vienna is the capital of Austria, located on the countries east side on the Danube River. Around Mozart I think the social, cultural and political aspects are very high class. If you weren't royalty you were a servant or someone close to that. There were Monarchies and Emperors in this time and place where Mozart was. Mozart did mention that he hated politics and that was one of the reasons he didn't want to just share his music with anyone. The idea of a German opera was not favored by a lot of the royalty in Vienna. They said that Italian operas were the best and all educated people knew that. There were a few of the men that wanted a German opera, they liked the thought of something new but others were still stuck in their strong ways and values. When Mozart had one of his first big operas, the Emperor was a little critical towards his performance. He said it was too long and if only Mozart was to cut out a chunk of it to make it shorter it would have been so much better. Mozart was very defensive towards this idea because he claimed it wouldn't be the same and you wouldn't get the same message or feel of the opera. Every second or act was needed for everything to come together like its supposed