Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Research Paper

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Introduction Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, or as we know him as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was he? Well he was a composer and pianist. Mozart was inspiring, his father taught him how to play the keyboard but he excelled past his father’s teachings. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was also a child prodigy as people called him. He excelled past his father’s teachings yet his father was a successful violinist, composer, and assistant concertmaster. He was also compassionate, he did two weeks worth of music lessons for Beethoven. Mozart was exceptionally perseverant, while sick in bed all he wanted to do was finish Requiem. Also, he was very passionate, he believed what he wanted to believe.

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He started writing his own compositions at the age of six. He also composed his first great mass at the age of twelve, Misa Brevis G. Also, he wrote his very first opera, Mitridate Re di Ponto, in 1770 at the age of fourteen. Mozart studied and admired Bach, Handel, and Hayden’s work. April, 1787, Beethoven, then age 16, went to Vienna to get two weeks worth of music lessons from Mozart. Hayden was full of praise for the young Mozart, telling his father that there was no other man on Earth quite like him. Between 1790 and 1791 (now mid-thirties), Mozart went through a period of great music productivity and personal healing. Some of his most admired works; the opera The Magic Flute, the final piano concerto in B-flat, the Clarinet concerto in A major, and the unfinished Requiem, to name a few. However, during this time both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s mental and physical health was deteriorating. In September, 1791, he was in Prague for the premier of the opera La Clemenza di Tito, which he was commissioned to produce for the coronation of LeopoldⅡ as King of Bohemia, he recovered briefly to do so. Some of Mozart’s most loved compositions include Requiem, The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, and Don

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