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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.
The work was published only in 1794, three years after Mozart's death, and the publisher Johann André found some other composer (whose identity is unknown) to fill in the missing passages; these interpolations have become the standard for performance.
Constanze Mozart, as depicted by her brother-in-law Joseph Lange (1782). Mozart scholarship long followed the accounts of early biographers, which proceeded in large part from the recorded memories of his widow Constanze and her sister Sophie Weber as they were recorded in the biographies by Franz Niemetschek and Georg Nikolaus von Nissen.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) had a powerful influence on the works of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827). Beethoven held Mozart in high regard; some of his music recalls Mozart's, he composed several variations on Mozart's themes and he modeled a number of his compositions on those of the older composer. Whether the two men ever ...
Mozart appears in Hermann Hesse's novels Der Steppenwolf [3] and Die Morgenlandfahrt. In 1968, David Weiss published Sacred and profane: a novel of the life and times of Mozart, [4] a narrative account on the composer's life drawing heavily on the documented historical record, but with invented conversations and other details.
Playbill for the opening performance of Die Zauberflöte, 30 September 1791. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operas comprise 22 musical dramas in a variety of genres. [a] They range from the small-scale, derivative works of his youth to the full-fledged operas of his maturity.
Following on from dark Mipdrama thriller “The Winemaker,” Germany’s Goodfriends Filmproduktion, producer of recent HBO Max release “Arthur’s Law,” is re-teaming with Austria’s Satel ...
Mozart's parents (Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria Mozart) were Catholics and raised their children religiously, insisting upon strict obedience to the requirements of the Church. [1] They encouraged family prayer , fasting , the veneration of saints , regular attendance at mass , and frequent confession .