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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.
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.
Mozart completed the concerto in January 1777, nine months after his Piano Concerto No. 8 in C major and with few significant compositions in the intervening period. [1] He composed the work for Victoire Jenamy, the daughter of Jean-Georges Noverre and a proficient pianist. [2] Mozart performed the concerto at a private concert on 4 October 1777.
The Piano Concerto No. 15 in B ♭ major, KV. 450 is a concertante work for piano and orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.The concerto is scored for solo piano, flute (third movement only), two oboes, two bassoons, two horns, and strings.
It is not known when Mozart completed his Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E-flat major, K. 365/316a, but research by Alan Tyson shows that cadenzas for the first and third movements are written in his and his father's handwriting on a type of paper used between August 1775 and January 1777.
The Man Who Wrote Mozart: The extraordinary life of Lorenzo Da Ponte. London: Phoenix. ISBN 978-0-7538-2180-0. Kenyon, Nicholas (2006). The Pegasus Pocket Guide to Mozart. New York: Pegasus Books. ISBN 1-933648-23-6. Levin, Robert (27 November 2008). "Musing on Mozart and Studying with Boulanger". The Boston Musical Intelligencer. Osborne ...
The Piano Concerto No. 22 in E ♭ major, K. 482, is a work for piano, or fortepiano, and orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composed in December 1785.. This is the first piano concerto of Mozart's to include clarinets in its scoring, [1] and is scored for solo piano, flute, two clarinets (in B ♭), two bassoons, two horns and two trumpets (silent in Andante) in E ♭, timpani (in E ...
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)