Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27, 1756. His parents were Leopold and Maria Pertl Mozart. Leopold was a successful composer, violinist, and assistant concert master at the Salzburg court. Wolfgang’s mother was born to a middle class family of local community leaders. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played numerous types of instruments and at an early age. When he was six years old, Mozart was already an advanced performer of keyboard instruments and a violinist, while he was demonstrating a capacity for improvisation and reading scores. His father, Leopold, decided to educate his only daughter Maria Anna “Nannerl” as a source of income. In 1762, his father, Leopold, took Nannerl at the age of eleven and Wolfgang, age six, to the court of Munich and Vienna. In 1763, they to a long journey of three and half years to the courts of Paris, London, The Hague, and Zurich performing as child prodigies. Ironically, Mozart’s father was unsure about Mozart’s talents. Mozart showed interest and while his father was teaching her sister, he was learning. His father saw that he had interest in learning and in the music field. He met very famous orchestras and style of Mannheim, French music in Paris, and the gallant style Johann Christian Bach and Johann Sebastian Bach’s youngest son. The trips were so long that they had to stop frequently; Wolfgang and other members of the family fell so ill that they had to cut their performance schedule. At age 13, Wolfgang and his father departed to Italy in December, leaving his mother and his sister at home. Nannerl’s professional music career was over, she was in a marriageable age and because of the period of time she couldn’t perform her artistic talent in public. In Rome, Wol...

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...ozart was falling into serious financial difficulties. Mozart associated with aristocratic Europeans and though he could live like one of them. Towards the end of 1785, Mozart met the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, a Venetian composer and poet that together they collaborated on the opera The Marriage of Figaro. The Opera received a successful premier in Vienna in 1786 and was warmly received in Prague. Later in 1787, they made the opera Don Giovanni which was premiered because of their musical complexity. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died on December 5, 1791 at the early age of 35. The cause of his death is still unclear because of the limits of postmortem diagnosis. The records lists that the cause was a military fever because a rash that he had in his skin. However, the hypothesis was that Mozart died of acute rheumatic fever, a disease he suffered throughout his life.