Mozart

Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 and died December 5, 1791. (Solomon pg.1) He showed many musical talents at a very early age, composing when he was five and when he was six playing before the Bavarian elector and the Austrian empress. Mozart astonished his audiences with his precocious skills when he played to the French and English royal families. (www.Stringsinthemountains.org) The family arrived home late in 1766; nine months later they were off again, to Vienna, where hopes of having an opera by Mozart performed were frustrated by intrigues. His family spent 1769 in Salzburg; 1770-73 saw three visits to Italy, where Mozart wrote two operas, Mitridate and Lucio Silla, and a serenata for performance in Milan. (Solomon pg.77) Summer 1773 he saw another visit to Vienna, probably in the hope of securing a position. When he was there Mozart wrote a set of string quartets and wrote a group of symphonies including his two earliest, nos.25 in g Minor and 29 in A. (Hutchings pg.41) The period from 1774 to mid-1777 was spent in Salzburg, where Mozart worked as Konzertmeister at the Prince- Archbishop's court; his works of these years include masses, mozart, solomon, vienna, hutchings, court, years, works, salzburg, position, piano, one, wrote, minor, work, symphonies, string, opera, music, include, family, composing, composer, written, wolfgang, two, three, spent, sonatas, six, serious, quartets, playing, paris, operas, munich