Term Paper on "Mozart Born Into a Family of Artists"

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Mozart

Born into a family of artists, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was enfolded into music at every turn. Even into his death, Mozart was not alone - he lived a decidedly sheltered life that centered on the production of music and entertainment of the upper classes that surrounded him. From his formative time in Vienna, Mozart created a reputation for himself through publishing music, playing the piano within a variety of private and public settings, and his first large-scale performance, the opera Die Entfuhung aus dem Sarail. Upon the success of his opera, Mozart received the direct attention of Emperor Joseph II who famously said about the work, "Too many notes, my dear Mozart." While the opera was sent through repertoires and taken on tour throughout Austria, he began his brief but exceptionally prolific writing career in earnest. Over the course of his life, Mozart published more than three-hundred pieces for a variety of instruments and voices.

His death at the age of thirty five was a tragic end to an all-too-short life.

Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg Austria. His father, Leopold, was a court orchestra leader and his sister Nanneri older by four years) was a skilled musician who toured with Wolfgang during his earliest years of performance. When Nanneri was nine, Leopold began teaching her to play the keyboard and the three-year-old Wolfgang apparently looked on with amazement and took up the instrument and was taught by his father until he rapidly exceeded the skill and technique of his father - Wolfgang was only five at the time (Ratner, 190). Between the ages of eighteen and twenty, Mozart wrote all of his masses, fourteen symphonies, and various concertos (May, 118). The family prospered because of Wolfgang'a work and were able to afford to move into a very socially significant apartment in a high-class neighborhood. Wolfgang was not only a prolific writer during this time, but he was also a consistent performer among the relatives and friends and neighbors and proved skilled at being able to engage with others and to create music. For four months in 1773, Leopold took Wolfgang to Vienna with the hope of finding his son a position with the emperor.

While this did not pan out, Mozart did complete a series of sonatas and quartets.

Mozart's return from Vienna in September of 1773 to compose and stage La Finta Giardineria, one of his more significant librettos. He remained in Vienna until 1777. His daily activities were not recorded and during this time, Mozart while a prolific writer was not prolific in his correspondence to home (Lucano, 54). So, very little detail is known about Mozart's life other than his publishing from that time. During that time, Leopold continued to press the royal court of Austria for a position for his son. As a way of keeping the necessary courtly skills sharp, Mozart continued to compose church music. Within a year, Mozart quickly became the preeminent composer in Salzburg of both instrumental and secular folk music. In just two months of late 1775, Mozart wrote four piano concertos, the serendades k204 and k250, and the Serenata Nocturna and a host of divertimentos While his church compositions were created with little enthusiasm. In 1776, Mozart wrote five violin concertos which would prove to be the only ones he wrote (May, 118). Mozart's focus on instrumental music was encouraged by his father who secured a significant number… READ MORE

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