Mozart: The life and beauty of the World's Most Famous Composer

Have you been to Vienna before or checked out Mozart music pieces? Maybe you heard of it somewhere. Well I'll share some fun facts and interesting pieces for you. I'll even share details of who Wolfgang Mozart is and how he shaped the music forever. 


Mozart (actual name: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) has a full name, his name is 

Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart.

This is his name. 

According to the CNY arts page, when he was four, he learned to play to clavier (a keyboard system) in thirty minutes. When he was five years old, he could play the Harpsichord and Violin in expert level. He then created half of his most famous pieces until the age of 19. His father was the only teacher who taught him how to play musical instruments.

In fact, he could listen to the music piece once, and figure out their compositions than any other music composer who had a lifespan like his. That's what fascinates me about it.

He has the talent to listen to all sorts of music while composing his own, and according to the Biography of Mozart on YouTube, he began travelling and performing in all of Europe with his sister, creating pieces as he went on tour, as a pianist making a living. You can imagine how many pieces he made just for a gig he's doing.. lets say next Thursday. 

This is according to Rich Capparela who is a former radio host for the Los Angeles KUSC radio channel.

Her sister is Maria Anna (1751-1829) is also a talented pianist, hence how they travel together and take on different jobs. A little bit on Maria Anna Mozart. According to the Classic FM in the UK, she achieved billers from the best of the best. 

When she first started, she learned how to play the harpsichord and the fortepiano and sang in bars and even the playbill showed her name.
Maria Anna Mozart
By the age of 18, she no longer plays in public areas and only composed in private.

In terms of Mozart himself, when he was 18 years old, he was working at Salzburg as a "working musician" for the Archbishop, Hieronymus von Colloredo. He stated that he hated it and according to 'Interlife.hk' here's what he said about Salzburg. 

"I hate Salzburg." He added:
"There isn’t a penny’s worth of stimulation in this town. It’s as if the audience consisted of nothing but tables and chairs."

The Archbishop got annoyed by his frequent absences and tensed up arguments. 

He also said: 

"Salzburg is no place for my talent. There is nothing going on there musically, and I don’t want to have anything to do with it. I have here the best and most useful acquaintances in the world; I am beloved and esteemed by the highest families; I am treated with every possible consideration, and well paid into the bargain; and am I to pine away my life in Salzburg for the sake of little pay, to linger on without remuneration or encouragement, and unable to benefit you, which I shall certainly have in my power to do here?” 

Whilst writing a letter to his dad about for leaving the Archbishop for his support in doing so.

He finally left the Archbishop in 1781 to pursue in a career of being his own musician.

He died just ten years after in 1791 at the age of 35. The cause of death was unknown at the time, and still no official word on his death. Although speculations emerged to his death included throat infection to head trauma.

Nobody knew where he was buried. 

I went to Salzburg in 2014 to check out Mozart's house, here are some of the pictures.

Mozart's House (Oddly enough I been to his house in 2014)



Let me know in the comments below:
How did you hear about Mozart? 
Did you have a fond piece of memory listening to Mozart?
Did you visit Mozart's house (like I did) in Salzburg? How was the experience?


References:
https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/sister-nannerl-most-talented/

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