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The Mozart effect is the theory that listening to the music of Mozart may temporarily boost scores on one portion of an IQ test. Popular science versions of the theory make the claim that "listening to Mozart makes you smarter" or that early childhood exposure to classical music has a beneficial effect on mental development.
Mozart often wrote sketches, from small snippets to extensive drafts, for his compositions.Though many of these were destroyed by Mozart's widow Constanze, [1] about 320 sketches and drafts survive, covering about 10 percent of the composer's work.
Throughout Mozart's life, he wrote a large number of stand-alone arias and vocal ensembles. Most of these are concert arias, with some being alternative arias or ensembles to operas. His first work in this field was written in 1765 ("Va, dal furor portata") and the last in 1791 ("Io ti lascio, o cara, addio").
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [a] [b] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time.
This is a list of solo piano pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. [1] Pieces ... (1805-06; This work is a transcription of the 2nd movement of String quartet no. 15 in ...
Staehelin has written a book about the work which argues that it cannot be by Mozart. [12] The Mozart Project considers this piece as "spurious or doubtful", and it does not appear on the project's listing of concertos. [13] Robert Levin analysed the Sinfonia Concertante and compared the structure of the work with known Mozart concertos. From ...
List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; List of solo piano compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; List of concert arias, songs and canons by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Köchel catalogue; Mozart symphonies of spurious or doubtful authenticity; The Complete Mozart Edition; Fantasia No. 4 (Mozart)
The Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503, was completed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on 4 December 1786, alongside the Prague Symphony, K. 504.Although two more concertos (No. 26, K. 537 and No. 27, K. 595) would later follow, this work is the last of what are considered the twelve great piano concertos written in Vienna between 1784 and 1786. [1]