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  • 626 Pieces Of Music Throughout His Lifetime
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    Was Mozart the Greatest Composer in History? Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has to be the greatest composer to ever live. He and his sister were both considered very gifted child prodigies. He started composing music when he was four and he started to write minuets by the age of five. When Mozart was around eight or nine, he started to write symphonies. Mozart also played quite a few instruments. When he was three years old he was already playing the harpsichord. He also was very talented on the keyboa...
  • Haydns Music
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    The classical period (1750 1810) 1750 1810 is what we call the classical period, and really any music not composed in this era is not classical music. Most of the well known classical composers come from this time such as Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven who I have written about know. Here are some short biographies of their lives. Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809) In Haydns life he wrote 108 symphonies for 36 weeks starting when he was 27. Most, if not all of Haydns music was inspired such as his first ...
  • Major Composers Since Mozart's Time
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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Introduction: This paper discusses Mozart's life, his compositions and his importance to the world and the world of music. It explains how Mozart's music is still some of the most popular classical music played today and his life is still studied because his music is so well known and liked. An Austrian composer and performer who showed astonishing precocity as a child and was an adult virtuoso, musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to Leopold Mozart and Anna Ma...
  • Salieri's Music
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    Patron Saint of All Mediocrities 10/21/98 AP English Patron Saint of All Mediocrities 1) Introduction A) Broad summary of the meB) Thesis Statement 2) Salieri's help from God) Reasons for Salieri's initial faith) God's Betrayal 3) Mozart is God's to olA) Musical torture) Romantic torture 4) Salieri declares war with God 5) Plans to use Mozart to defeat God 6) God defeats Mozart Patron Saint of All Mediocrities The movie Amadeus is a dramatic depiction of the competition between Wolfgang Amadeus ...
  • Early Age Of 3 Mozart
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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is often referred to as the greatest musical genius of all time in Western musical tradition. His creative method was extraordinary: his writings show that he almost always wrote a complete composition mentally before finally writing it on paper. Mozart created 600 works in his short life of 35 years. His works included 16 operas, 41 symphonies, 27 piano concert i, and 5 violin concert i, 25 string quartets, and 19 masses. Mozart was born on Jan. 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Au...
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 to Leopold and Anna Mozart in the town of Salzburg Austria. Leopold, probably the greatest influence on Mozart's life was the assistant choir director at the Archbishop of Salzburg at the time of Mozart's birth. Mozart was christened as "Joannes Chrysotomus Wolfgang Theophilus" but adopted the Latin term "Amadeus" as his name of choice Mozart was one of seven children born to Leopold and Anna, however only him and his sister (Nannerl) survived...
  • Mozart's Performances Of His Own Piano Concertos
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    MOZART Mozart is perhaps the greatest musical genius who ever lived. Mozart's full name is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Most people called him Mozart or Wolfgang. Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, January 27, 1756. Mozart is the greatest musical child prodigy who ever lived. He began composing minuets at the age of 5 and symphonies at age 9. His father took him on a series of concert tours together with his sister, Maria Anna; born four and one-half years before Mozart. She too, was a child prod...
  • Mozart's Appointment At Salzburg
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    Born January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, and baptized Johannes Chrysostom us Wolfgang us Theophilus Mozart, he was educated by his father, Leopold Mozart, who was concertmaster in the court orchestra of the archbishop of Salzburg and a celebrated violinist, composer, and author. By the age of six Mozart had become an accomplished performer on the clavier, violin, and organ and was highly skilled in sight-reading and improvisation. Five short piano pieces composed by Mozart when he was six years old a...
  • Salieri Hate Mozart
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    This paper will take a look into the movie Amadeus, to see if the film accurately depicts the history of Amadeus and the enlightenment of the characters. The time period that the film takes place in is the 18th century. There is a mixture of social class in this film. There are rulers and commoners shown in this film. The main characters in the film which are Mozart, Salieri, and Emperor Joseph represent actual historical figures. The film was made in 1984. The film was somewhat accurate with th...
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the greatest music composers who ever lived. His name and the word 'genius' are often bandied about together by music writers and critics and many would argue rightly so. Mozart had a fantastic ear for writing a catchy tune with perfect orchestral arrangement. His compositions have a rich and distinctive sound; it can be said that in his brief lifetime (only 35 years) that he wrote a masterpiece in every genre of classical music without much apparent effort. Ori...
  • Success Of Mozart's Opera
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    Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. His Christian name was Johannes Chrysostom us Wolfgang us Theophilus Mozart. His father Leopold Mozart educated him and was a violinist, author, and composer. He began composing minuets at the age of five. When Mozart was six, he was successful at the clavier, violin, and organ. Mozart started composing symphonies at nine years of age. In 1762 his father brought him to many concerts through Europe. Europeans ignor...
  • Mozart's Music
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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was probably the greatest genius in Western musical history. He was born in Salzberg, Austria on January 27, 1756. The son of Leopold Mozart and his wife Anna Maria Perl. Leopold was a successful composer and violinist and assistant concertmaster at the Salzberg court. At the age of three, Wolfgang showed signs of remarkable musical talent. He learned to play the harpsichord, a keyboard instrument related to the piano, at the age of four. Wolfgang began composing minuets ...
  • Mozart's Music To Salieri
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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a remarkable musician and composer. Mozart was born in Salzburg Austria in 1756. By the age of four it was evident that he possessed tremendous musical talent and music memory. His father Leopold who was a master violinist and composer decided to enroll young Wolfgang in harpsichord lessons. At age five Mozart was composing music and by age six he had mastered the keyboard. By his early teens, he had mastered the piano, violin, and harpsichord and was writing symphoni...
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Movie
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    Movie: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The movie takes place in Vienna, Austria in the 1700's. The film begins with the attempted suicide of Antonio Salieri, a court composer of the Austrian Emperor. He is placed in a mental asylum where a priest visits and asks for his confession. Salieri claims to have caused the death of Mozart. The rest of the movie is a narration by the court composer, mostly in flashbacks, of how he caused this death. Salieri recounts that while he was playing games as a boy Mozar...
  • Gift Of Wonderful Music
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    Amadeus: God and Gifts Amadeus was a great film. The overall theme of the movie is a man vs. God. Antonio Salieri's started his life in music after his father died. He found that music was his passion. He devoted his life to writing music and to God. He was content with his music, and was considered a great Italian composer. God had given him a gift, the gift of wonderful music. Antonio Salieri's life was changed the day he heard Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The music he heard was that of God. It wa...
  • Court Composer And The Other Spot
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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a key composer during the Classical Period of music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived at a small town and after that he moved to Austria and he composed operas for the emperor. At that time, there were tow prized positions of employment for a composer; he could either be the Court Composer and the Capellmeister. If you were the court composer you were the composer to the King or Emperor, and if you were the Capellmeister you were the church composer. In the movie both of...
  • Innovative Nature Of Beethoven's Music
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    When critically analyzed in respect to the earlier artists of the Classical music period, Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven's music and life are simultaneously shown to be an evolution as well as a break from his predecessors. No doubt due to the influence of Mozart, as well as his tutelage under Haydn, Beethoven inherited their Classical music legacy but did not keep it in stasis. His innovations within musical composition were built upon the artistic foundation of ...
  • Beethoven From Writing Music
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    "Two of the most well know and respected composers of all time". The Great Composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig Van Beethoven died over one hundred and fifty plus years ago. Now after their lives are over, their music is still studied, enjoyed and respected today. These two great composers had very different approaches to music. But none less spectacular than the next. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756 and is considered one of the best, if not the best, classical composer ever. By...
  • Bach And Mozart
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    Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are perhaps the two most well-know composers of classical music in the world. These two composers have most assuredly earned their recognition, as geniuses of the magnitude that makes one's work truly immortal. J.S. Bach's work became well-known to Mozart during the span of the latter composer's career. Mozart was profoundly influenced by Bach's work, more so than by any other composer. It was Mozart that spent more time engrossed within the musi...
  • Mozart And Beethoven
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    Beethoven and Mozart are the two most important musicians of their time. Their pieces are everlasting and will live on forever. Their styles are so unique and uplifting that they could never be matched. These masterminds played in the same time period but their lives differed tremendously. There are some similarities and many differences between these two but one fact will remain: They are the central and most vital part of all music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the most prolific and impo...

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