Mozart

Mozart Looking back we have come to recognize Mozart as undoubtedly one of the brightest musical minds that we have ever studied, but our picture of Mozart depends upon where we focus. Was he a brilliant, successful composer or a child prodigy who never grew up' Was he a facile composer who created nothing original or a composer of great emotional depth' He was all of these and more. For many of us, our focus is guided by our exposure to Mozart's personality in the film Amadeus, but is that an accurate picture' Mozart's life remains a complicated puzzle. As a child, he seemed gifted beyond all measure, playing at age six before the empress, and composing at an even earlier age. By twelve he had written an opera, and his talents seemed to know no bounds. From this auspicious beginning, one would have predicted a future filled with prestigious royal appointments, the brilliant composer and performer constantly sought out by emperors and kings. But his career, which ended tragically with his death at age thirty-five, was a constant disappointment. When once asked about a meager court appointment he held, Mozart replied: "I get paid far too much for what I mozart, music, composer, wrote, piano, including, age, writing, works, violin, talents, studied, string, simple, seemed, quartets, quartet, power, picture, over, one, often, oboe, never, much, melodies, genre, focus, flute, far, concertos, complicated, comfortable, come, clarinet, child