5/16/2023 0 Comments Mozart convertos![]() ![]() Mozart visited the Webers on his way back to find that Aloysia seemed to have forgotten him entirely.īack in Salzburg, Mozart reluctantly accepted the post of court organist (1779). His father then persuaded him to return to Salzburg. He composed the Paris symphony the same year. They stayed at Mannheim, where he composed some piano concertos and flute quartets, and fell in love with a coloratura soprano, Aloysia Weber. Unhappy with the austere and unmusical Archbishop Colloredo of Salzburg, who was appointed at the death of Sigismund, Mozart left his service in 1777 and, traveling with his mother, sought employment elsewhere. Bach, Haydn, Handel, and the Italian composers were all major influences on him at the time. Between 1775-6 he composed two operas: La finta giardiniera (trans The Lady Who Disguised Herself as a Gardener) and Il re pastore (trans The Shepherd King) five violin concertos the Haffner Serenade, and masses for the Salzburg Court Chapel. Further quartets and symphonies followed during and after a visit to Vienna in 1773, when he came into contact with Haydn's music. By 1772 he had written about 25 symphonies (some are lost), and his first quartets. He was prolific, writing sacred vocal pieces and instrumental works too. Musical experience gained on these tours helped mould Mozart's style, especially in dramatic music. There followed three extended visits by father and son to Italy (1770-2). He returned to Salzburg, and was appointed honorary Konzertmeister to Archbishop Sigismund von Schrattenbach. However, in Vienna the Italian musicians at court, including the composer Antonio Salieri, made it difficult for him to produce his operas. In 1767 the family went for five months to Vienna, where Mozart wrote an opera buffa (comic opera) for the Emperor, La finta semplice (trans, The Pretend Simpleton) and a Singspiel (a German-language opera with some spoken dialogue), Bastien und Bastienne (1769), commissioned by Dr. Leopold was keen to exhibit his son's extraordinary talents, along with those of his gifted pianist-daughter, Maria-Anna (called Nannerl) (1751 - 1829), and he undertook a series of tours across Europe with them when Mozart was just six years old. He displayed marked musical gifts very early, playing the keyboard confidently when aged four, composing his first pieces for it aged five, and quickly mastering the violin. ![]() He used Wolfgang and Amadeus in his signature, so he is generally known by these two names. His given names were Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Theophilus, the last of which is Gottlieb in German, and Amadeus in Latin. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, the son of composer, musical author, and violinist, Leopold Mozart and his wife, Anna Maria Pertl. ![]()
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