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  Mozart - MSN Encarta
As a child prodigy Mozart toured Europe and became widely regarded as a miracle of nature because of his musical gifts as a performer of piano, harpsichord, and organ and as a composer of instrumental and vocal music.
In 1767, at age 11, Mozart transformed piano sonatas by various composers into his first four piano concertos through the addition of interludes and episodes for orchestra.
During the last years of his life Mozart was plagued at times by financial difficulties, as revealed in a series of letters he wrote to his fellow Freemason Michael Puchberg, in which he begged for loans.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761554446/Mozart.html   (1133 words)

  
 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart biography - 8notes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Rupert's Cathedral as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart.
Mozart's older sister, Maria Anna, nicknamed 'Nannerl', was a talented pianist and often accompanied her brother on Leopold's tours.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Concertos Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791).
www.8notes.com /biographies/mozart.asp   (2055 words)

  
 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
According to Mozart's own testimony, he was dismissed literally "with a kick in the seat of the pants." Despite this, Mozart chose to settle and develop his career in Vienna after its aristocracy began to take an interest in him.
Mozart's final illness and death are difficult scholarly topics, obscured by Romantic legends and replete with conflicting theories.
Mozart is unusual among composers for being the subject of many legends and myths.
www.mp3.fm /Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart.htm   (1188 words)

  
 CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: W.A. Mozart Biography
One of the greatest prodigies in music history, Mozart had the good fortune to be born in 1756 at a time when tonality and harmony in western music had evolved to a level of purity and sophistication that makes the 18th century the envy of more than one great composer born later.
Mozart grew to have a love-hate relationship with his overbearing father and never developed a normal adult balance in conducting the affairs of everyday life.
Mozart as a successful opera composer and piano virtuoso must have made a good bit of money at this time, yet he and Costanze could hold on to none of it and changed residencies eleven times in nine years.
www.classicalarchives.com /bios/mozart_bio.html   (1512 words)

  
 Showcases :: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
It was not unusual for composers to keep a list of works as they were written, accompanied by musical sketches of their opening bars, known as ‘incipits’ from the Latin word used in medieval times to signify ‘here begins’ at the start of a poem or treatise.
These lists were already being called thematic catalogues by 1768, when Leopold Mozart, as a proud father, compiled a “Catalogue of all the things that this 12-year-old youngster composed since his seventh year…” Wolfgang’s own thematic catalogue covers his work from 1784 until his death in 1791.
Mozart’s widow, Constanze, later wrote that “the catalogue was, from its inception, kept so accurately by Mozart, that he carefully entered even the small things he wrote on his journeys…” In fact, some compositions were omitted.
www.bl.uk /onlinegallery/themes/music/mozart.html   (1241 words)

  
 List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mozart's Violin Concertos are notable for the beauty of their melodies and the skillful use of the expressive and technical characteristics of the instrument, though Mozart probably never went through all the violin possibilities like others (e.g.
Mozart's earliest composition attempts begin with piano sonatas and other piano pieces, as this is the instrument on which his musical education took place.
Mozart's last three quartets, dedicated to the King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm II, are noted for the cantabile character of the parts for cello (the instrument played by the king himself), the sweetness of sounds and the equilibrium among the different instruments.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart   (3345 words)

  
 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart was then summoned from Munich to Vienna, where the Salzburg court was in residence on the accession of a new emperor.
In these years, too, he wrote six string quartets which he dedicated to the master of the form, Haydn: they are marked not only by their variety of expression but by their complex textures, conceived as four-part discourse, with the musical ideas linked to this freshly integrated treatment of the medium.
Mozart was buried in a Vienna suburb, with little ceremony and in an unmarked grave, in accordance with prevailing custom.
w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/mozart.html   (890 words)

  
 Mozart
Mozart conducted the first two performances, when he was overtaken by his last illness.
Mozart, a Freemason since 1784, and Schikaneder, a fellow Mason of a different lodge, had embodied much of Masonic teaching and symbolism in their opera.
The head of Mozart's lodge was Prince Nikolaus Esterh zy, Haydn's patron and a high-ranking diplomat in the imperial government.
www.masonmusic.org /mozart.html   (2417 words)

  
 Mozart Requiem
Mozart was a great composer of repute by this time, at the age of only 35, and had completed a vast list of compositions, from piano concertos to string-quartets, sonatas to operas, symphonies to solo works.
Mozart died before he could complete this epic work, although he left quite a few manuscript pages showing what he was thinking of, some in quite a bit of detail, enabling the work to be completed by others.
Mozart stands out as being spectacular whilst the other ‘helpers’ to complete the requiem show less of the Great composer than the pupil or pupils who are trying hard to live up to the Master’s expectations.
www.articlesofnote.com /Article/Mozart-Requiem/71   (568 words)

  
 Mozart: by and about the master; scores, opera, symphonies, and more -- the BIG LIST.
Mozart : The 'Jupiter' Symphony : No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 (Cambridge Music Handbooks) - The historical background and aesthetic contexts of the work as well as the music itself are explored in this guide to Mozart's last and most celebrated symphony.
Mozart for Tenor Sax - by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart - Revel in the genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the "Prince of Harmony." Meet the precocious child whose music became his life until his death at age 35.
www.a-ten.com /classics/mozart.html   (1572 words)

  
 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart also possessed an extraordinary, innate ability for improvisation, and he could sight-read difficult pieces of music astonishingly well.
Mozart, the young prodigy, astonished audiences by sight-reading anything given to him, by providing the names of any notes or chords one sang or played, and by performing difficult songs with a piece of cloth hung in front of the keys of the clavichord so he could not see his hands.
Franz Joseph Haydn, himself an extremely famous composer, once said to Mozart’s father, “Before God and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer I know, either personally or by name.” Indeed, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s life impacted music’s history in a way that cannot ever possibly be forgotten.
www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b2mozart.htm   (1325 words)

  
 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart had wanted to be an independent artist, free of the church and the court, yet even a composer of his genius was not able to accomplish this.
Mozart, in his set of Six Sonatas K. 301-306 was influenced by a set of sonatas produced by the Dresden composer Joseph Schuster (1748-1812) in which the role of the violin was expanded.
Mozart’s Quartet for Oboe and Strings was composed in Munich where, at the invitation of the Elector Carl Theodor, Mozart was given the honor of composing the grand opera for the Carnival of 1781.
www.fuguemasters.com /mozart.html   (7732 words)

  
 The Mozart Project: Der neue Köchel
The decades following Mozart's death in 1791 saw several attempts at an inventory of his compositions, but it was not until 1862 that the Viennese botanist, mineralogist, and educator Ludwig von Köchel succeeded in this enterprise.
As his title suggests, Köchel took those works attributed to Mozart which he understood to be neither incomplete, arranged, doubtful, nor spurious and placed them in what he construed as their chronological order, from number 1, a tiny harpsichord piece played to and transcribed by his father, to 626, the unfinished Requiem.
To be sure, the image of Mozart as a swift composer is supported by evidence from Mozart himself as well from his family and circle of friends and professional acquaintances.
www.mozartproject.org /essays/zaslaw.html   (1100 words)

  
 The Music Chamber - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
He was repeating keyboard exercises by ear at the age of three, composing minuets by the age of four, touring Europe as a violin and piano virtuoso at the age of six, and producing symphonies at the age of nine, all before he had celebrated his tenth birthday.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27th, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria to the name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart.
Although many have the misperception that he was extremely poor and did not receive much for his compositions, the truth is that not only was he substantially paid, many of his pieces received double the amount a piece by another composer, such as Haydn, would receive.
library.thinkquest.org /27110/noframes/composers/mozart.html   (1199 words)

  
 The Mozart Effect
She found that Mozart listeners outperformed other groups more often than could be explained by chance, although the effect was usually much weaker than Shaw and Rauscher saw.
Even these small effects are impressive, says Hetland, because so many factors could obscure them "In the early stages of research in a field, we would expect the measured effect to be small until we learn to separate the signal from the noise in the research method," she says.
Specifically, only Mozart also activates areas of the brain involved in fine motor coordination, vision, and other higher thought processes, all of which might be expected to come into play for spatial reasoning.
www.fortunecity.com /emachines/e11/86/mozart.html   (2512 words)

  
 Essential Mozart Compositions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
INTRODUCTION TO This list is one of essential compositions, those we feel you must have in your recorded collection of Mozart works.
Most of them are the familiar, workhorse, compositions that are frequently heard—as they should be.
Many of these works are discussed in the Mozart literature, as well as in articles and postings on our Forum and other Mozart discussion areas.
www.mozartforum.com /Essentials.htm   (233 words)

  
 Great Performances . Mozart at 250: The Salzburg Festival Celebration | PBS
Mozart's 250th birthday in 2006, the internationally renowned Salzburg Festival presented all 22 of the composer's operas and other major compositions throughout the course of its summer schedule.
Learn how the annual event got its start and about Mozart's relationship to his hometown during his lifetime in the essay by Tim Smith.
See which works from the composer's oeuvre were selected for the gala concert in the song list.
www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/mozart250/index.html   (348 words)

  
 Classical composer biographies
Just awesome, man. Beethoven didn’t write as much as Mozart or Schubert, but what he produced is all worth listening to.
Mozart’s, probably because in the orchestral works the sound tends to be denser, while his chamber music also seems quite complex.
There does seem to be a tendency among some people to label Mozart as nothing more than the composer of “pretty tunes” or little twiddles.
www.cl.cam.ac.uk /~mn200/music/composers.html   (3150 words)

  
 Mozart Unit Activity Packet
By some accounts Mozart died a poor man. In reality, he was not poor, but had requested a modest funeral according to the standards of the day.
List the types of music Salieri wrote, and to the best of your ability how many of each.
CL: “Tell me Herr Mozart, this I have heard that you have been working on another piece at the same time you were writing the “Magic Flute”.
www.easternct.edu /depts/edu/units/mozartpacket.html   (1122 words)

  
 A Sampling of Web Resources in Music
Neue Mozart Ausgabe: http://www.nma.at This is a database of Mozart sources This database lists information about all of Mozart's compositions.
Compositions, autographs, and sketches, and compositions in various countries are searchable by Kochel number.
The Mozart Project: This fairly comprehensive site http://www.mozartproject.org/ is devoted to the "life, times, and music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart." Its author, Steve Boerner, includes an extensive biography, a bibliography, a list of Mozart's compositions, arranged according to Koechel number, selected essays, and links to other Mozart sites.
library.shu.edu /music.htm   (1628 words)

  
 Classical Net - Composer Works List - Mozart
The following list was generated from a database that is still being revised, primarily to add fragments and minor works from the appendices.
The list follows the original Köchel catalog numbering scheme, but new works are designated with the Köchel 6 numbering.
Use of text, images, or any other copyrightable material contained in these pages, without the written permission of the copyright holder, except as specified in the Copyright Notice, is strictly prohibited.
www.classical.net /music/composer/works/mozart   (627 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mozart (Master Musicians Series) (Master Musicians Series): Books: Julian Rushton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Julian Rushton offers a concise and up-to-date biography of this musical genius, combining a well-researched life of the composer with an introduction to the works--symphonic, chamber, sacred, and theatrical--of one of the few musicians in history to have written undisputed masterpieces in every genre open to composers of his time.
Rushton offers a vivid portrait of the composer, ranging from Mozart the Wunderkind--travelling with his family from Salzburg to Vienna, Paris, London, Rome, and Milan--to the mature author of such classic works as "The Marriage of Figaro", "Don Giovanni", and "The Magic Flute".
During the past half-century, scholars have thoroughly explored Mozart's life and music, offering new interpretations of his compositions based on their historical context and providing a factual basis for confirming or, more often, debunking fanciful accounts of the man and his work.
www.amazon.com /Mozart-Master-Musicians/dp/0195182642   (1481 words)

  
 week8   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Questions 1 through 5: Mozart (1756-1791) has been considered by many musical authorities to be one the greatest child protégés of all time.
Mozart began playing and composing music at an early age.
About a quarter of all Mozart's instrumental compositions were sonatas.
www.accd.edu /spc/socbhsci/humaniti2/week8.htm   (833 words)

  
 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - List of Works
In 1851 Ludwig Köchel decided to compile a complete chronological catalogue after having read a pamphlet that lamented the state of knowledge regarding Mozart's compositions.
Chronological- Thematic Directory of the Complete Compositions of Mozart), the first work on this scale for any composer.
The Köchel (K or KV) numbers are assigned in what was believed to be chronological order, but due to the improvements in musicological research the original numbers have sometimes been altered.
w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/mozart_works.html   (210 words)

  
 Essential/Recommended Compositions of Mozart - MozartForum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This list is one of essential compositions; those we feel you must have in your recorded collection of Mozart works.
We know that others may not fully agree with all our selections, and will think that some compositions that were not listed are essential or instead ought to be recommended.
Here we encourage everyone to list recommended compositions to Forum members that you feel we missed.
www.mozartforum.com /VB_forum/showthread.php?t=763   (429 words)

  
 Mozart 250th Birthday Celebration
Mozart's Dice - Mozart wrote a minuet in which all the bars could be randomly interchanged to create many thousands of different compositions!
A new composition could thus be created by throwing dice to choose each bar of music.
It also uses historical facts in that Mozart actually DID have a pet starling that he said could sing the theme the his 17th Piano Concerto in Gmajor.
www.musickit.com /mozart250   (724 words)

  
 Toys"R"Us/Babies"R"Us - Toys: Category: Music Instruments: Musical Toys: Mozart Magic Cube
Mozart Magic cube Inspires creativity and interactive play.
Mozart Magic Cube teaches how sounds combine to form musical masterpieces.
Mozart Magic Cube is the winner of prestigious Dr Toy and Parents Choice awards.
www.toysrus.com /sm-mozart-magic-cube--pi-2267590.html   (546 words)

  
 Mozart Projects
For Projects Two and Three, your handouts, a bibliography, a one-page outline, and (optional) your PowerPoint presentation are due at the beginning of the class period on the day your presentation is listed in the Course Schedule on the course home page.
Below you will find the lists of Project Two and Project Three topics followed by guidelines for each type of topic: composer and opera, librettist or playwright, singer, or theater.
Here is the list of Project Four topics followed by guidelines for your research.
www.elmhurst.edu /~markh/mozart/Projects.htm   (1044 words)

  
 Vienna Mozart Orchestra performing in the Golden Hall, Vienna State Opera, Konzerthaus, Hofburg
The Vienna Mozart Concerts even fulfill the wishes of the Strauss lovers by performing the most impressing pieces by the Strauss Dynasty, such as "The Blue Danube Waltz" and "The Radetzky March.
Vienna Mozart Orchestra performs in 4 magnificient concert halls.
The Vienna State Opera House was opened in 1869 with a gala performance of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”;.
www.viennaconcerts.com /mozart.php   (535 words)

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