![]() The Munich Carnival of 1775 prompted a commission for a new opera the result was La finta giardiniera (K. 20, the so-called "Sun" Quartets, from which Mozart later claimed to have learned vital lessons in form and development. Austria beckoned once more, and a Viennese visit in the late spring of 1773 brought Mozart into contact with the work of Franz Joseph Haydn, specifically his String Quartets Op. Less than a year after their return to Salzburg (where Wolfgang was again seriously ill) the Mozarts were back in Milan where the opera Lucia Silla (K. I have seen four rascals hanged here in the Piazza del Duomo. "Lest you should think I am unwell I am sending you these few lines. At this stage Wolfgang was still very much a child, writing to his sister from Milan: In Bologna he was admitted to the ranks of compositore by the Accademica Filarmonica – a position normally denied to anyone under 20. ![]() An extended tour of Italy (1769-71) by father and son met with unprecedented success: Wolfgang was given a private audience with the Pope in Rome and was awarded the Order of the Golden Spur. 51) to words by Coltellini, and also saw a private production of his short operatic work Bastien und Bastienne (K. In 1768, and by imperial command, Wolfgang composed a full-length opera, La finta semplice (The Simple Pretense, K. It has since been speculated that these illnesses had a generally weakening effect on the boy's constitution, leaving him vulnerable in later life, although Nannerl outlived Wolfgang by 28 years. Another pattern which emerged from the tours, however, was not so propitious: the regular illnesses suffered by all the family, but by the two children in particular. Over the next few years the Mozart family followed a pattern of increasingly ambitious tours to various cities throughout Europe, including Paris, London, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Munich, as well as giving concerts to the aristocracy of Salzburg and Vienna. All three Mozarts were presented at the Court of the Elector of Munich and later in the same year their burgeoning reputations led to an appearance at the Emperor's Viennese Court at Schönbrunn Palace, where little Wolfgang's talent and artless behavior (which included jumping into the Empress's lap and kissing her) made him the object of everyone's indulgence. His progress continued to be prodigious and by early 1762 Leopold believed the two children were ready to be introduced to the world. Wolfgang was given lessons by his father from the age of four, and within a year he was not only playing duets with his sister, but composing little minuets in imitation of the pieces his father set him. Leopold was an able composer, and his "Toy Symphony" is still regularly performed, but the accomplishment most admired during his lifetime was a treatise on violin playing published in 1756, the year of Wolfgang's birth.īoth Wolfgang and his elder sister, Maria Anna (nicknamed Nannerl), were child prodigies. By dint of his determined character, Leopold eventually attained the positions of Court composer and vice-Kapellmeister to the Salzburg establishment of Count Thurn und Taxis, Canon of Salzburg. However, again like Bach, the supreme quality he brought to previously defined forms places him in the front rank of musical geniuses.īaptized Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus, Mozart was the seventh-born child of a musically gifted and personally ambitious father, Leopold, the son of an Augsburg bookbinder. Thus it is only in the area of the concerto that he could be said to have moved the music forward in any substantial way. Bach, Mozart (JanuDecember 5, 1791) had little interest in establishing new forms within Classical music: he was more committed to the idea of synthesis and the perfection of forms already in existence. ![]() If there is no first-edition designation, then only the sixth-edition number is used.Like J.S. If there is a distinct sixth-edition designation, that number is separated from the first by a slash. ![]() In all other references, the Mozart Project uses the following convention: Whenever possible, the original, first-edition designation is used. Numbers from the first (K 1) and sixth (K 6) editions of the Köchel catalog are clearly marked in these lists. ![]() Works deemed spurious or doubtful have been deleted, as have most fragments and works that are considered lost. That information has been checked against more recent sources, chiefly The New Grove Mozart by Stanley Sadie. These lists are based on the sixth edition of Chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis sämtlicher Tonwerke Wolfgang Amadé Mozarts (Chronological-Thematic Catalog of the Complete Works of Wolfgang AmadÈ Mozart), published in 1964. As a contibution to the great maestro Mozart, which is the source origin for this site name, we have gathered for you a list of all of his works. ![]()
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