WOLFGANG MOZART

CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY WOLFGANG MOZART WAS BORN ON JANUARY, 27, HIS DAD’S NAME IS LEOPOLD MOZART AND HIS MOM’S NAME IS ANNA MARIA. HE HAS ONE SISTER NAMED MARIA ANNA. HIS FATHER GAVE HIS SISTER PIANO LESSONS. HE WOULD WATCH THEM PLAY THE PIANO. EVENTUALLY HE LEARNED THE CORDS AND TEMPO. IN 1762 WOLFGANG'S FATHER TOOK HIM AND HIS SISTER WHO WAS ELEVEN AND HIM WHO WAS SIX TO THE COUNT OF MUNICH WHICH WAS ONE OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN TOURS.

THE TOUR WHEN WOLFGANG AND HIS SISTER WENT ON TOUR THEY GOT TO GO TO PARIS, LONDON, THE HAGUE, AND ZURICH PERFORMING OF CHILD PRODIGIES. ON TOUR HE GOT TO MEET JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH (JOHANN SEBASTIAN YOUNGEST SON) WHO HAD A BIG INFLUENCE ON WOLFGANG.

ITALY ON DECEMBER, 1769, WOLFGANG, THEN AT THE AGE OF 13, DEPARTED FROM SULZBURG TO ITALY WITH HIS FATHER. THAT LASTED 15 MONTHS. HE PERFORMED AT MANY POPULAR ITALIAN PLACES. ONE IS MILAN. MOZART RETUNED FROM ITALY ON JANUARY HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A MUSICIAN IN THE ARCHBISHOP OF SALZBURG'S COURT.

MONEY PROBLEMS IN 1788 MOZART GOT VERY ILL AND STARTED TO HAVE SEIZURES. EVENTUALLY HE STARTED TO HAVE THEM IN PUBLIC. THIS WAS A PROBLEM. HIS SEIZURES LOWERED HIS INCOME. MOZART STARTED TO ASK FOR LOANS FROM HIS CLOSE FRIEND MASON MICHAEL PUCHBERG. HE STARTED TO MAKE LONG TRIPS TO PLACES SUCH AS LEIPZIG, DRESDEN, AND BERLIN IN THE SPRING OF 1789, AND TO FRANKFURT, MANNHEIM, AND OTHER GERMAN CITIES IN GERMANY IN HOPES THAT IT WOULD IMPROVE HIS INCOME.

THE MONEY PROBLEMS COME TO AN END MOZART'S FINANCIAL SITUATION, A SOURCE OF EXTREME ANXIETY IN 1790, FINALLY BEGAN TO IMPROVE. IT IS THOUGHT TO HAVE BENEFITED FROM THE SALE OF DANCE MUSIC WRITTEN IN HIS ROLE AS IMPERIAL CHAMBER COMPOSER. MOZART NO LONGER BORROWED LARGE SUMS FROM PUCHBERG. EVEN THOUGH HE HAD NO MORE MONEY PROBLEMS HE STILL HAD SEIZURES.

Mozart died December 5, He was only 35 years old. No one knows why he died because they did not perform an autopsy. He had a third class funeral and was buried in a mass grave. It was unusually rainy that day. DEATH

MYTH OF MOZART MOZART IS UNUSUAL AMONG COMPOSERS FOR BEING SUBJECT OF MANY LEGENDS AND MYTHS. AN EXAMPLE IS THE START THAT MOZART COMPOSED HIS REQUIEM WITH THE BELIEF IT WAS FOR HIMSELF. SOME OF THESE MYTHS MAY BE BASED IN FACT BUT SORTING OUT FABRICATIONS FROM REAL EVENTS IS A VEXING AND CONTINOUS TASK FOR MOZART SCHOLORS.

CLASS QUIZ WHEN WAS MOZART BORN? WHAT AGE DID MOZART START PLAYING IN PUBLIC? WHEN DID MOZART DIE? MOZART WAS BORN JANUARY 27, MOZART STARTED PLAYING IN PUBLIC AT THE AGE OF 6. MOZART DIED DECEMBER 5, 1791.

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