Who is Mozart?

Austrian composer Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, recognized as one of the greatest composers of Western music, was born in Salzburg in 1756. His father Leopold was in Salzburg Kapellmeister in Salzburg and set out in the year Mozart, born at a very younger age. He recognized the chords in three, played short works on Harpsichord in four and began to fold at five. He also played his first concert in Munich, with his sister, known as Nannel.

In 1763, Leopold took the family on a concert tour of Western Europe, which lasted until 1766. Mozart played and improvised, and sometimes did Nannerl. The first works of Mozart were released in Paris and meeting with the youngest son of Johann Sebastien Bach Johann Christian led to Mozart to compose the first of his symphonies. In the next few years Mozart branched into more musical genres, writing and singpiel, opera buffa and matter. At the age of thirteen, he was appointed honorary can ofter in court in Salzburg.

Another tour on which Mozart went was a trip of 1769 to 1771 through Italy and included the papal audience and the production of the opera in Milan. Another trip to Italy was followed later in 1771 and a third from 1772 to 1773. During this time Mozart wrote more symphonies and other operas, but also branched into Divertimentos, Serenata, Oratorio and String Quartets. In 1774 he had a paid position in Salzburg and also received commissions from nearby and distant. Soon, however, he asked for absence and was on the way, to incite his father, looking for a position that was more suitable for his extensive and deep talent.

In 1781 he was convened by the Archbishop, for whom he worked in Vienna to access Joseph II. His treatment for him to seek fulfillment of his duties and his difficulties in employing should continue for some time. Joseph II first demanded that only be made in courtThe German operas, but when he allowed the Italian opera, Mozart wrote Le Nozze di Figaro , or Marriage of Figaro , which premiered in 1786 and Don Giovanni , which was in 1787. Kammermusicus, after Gluck's death. In 1791 he became an assistant - an unpaid attitude - to Kapellmeister in the Cathedral of Sts. Stephen and if he survived the current bandlemerister, Leopold Hofmann, it could have been his dream position.

Mozart continued writing symphonies, operas and many other works for a wide range of files, including jupiter Symphony, something fan tutte and Die Zauberflöte or magic flute and its well -known Clarinet. During the flower to Prague in 1791 and died later in that year at work on the authorized request and was left incomplete but completed Joseph Eybler and Franz Xaver Süssmayr. Mozart's life, death and relationship with composer Antonio Salieri in Amadeus Peter Shaffer is basedof some characterization and incidents.