W A Mozart - from Wikipedia
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is rightly considered the sun in the constellation of music. Mozart is the most enduringly popular of classical composers and his works have become part of the standard concert and opera repertoires.
Mozart had a complex and serious personality, but was at the same time, by all accounts of an easy-going and humorous nature. Brought up as the super-star child genius, [which he no doubt was!] playing for all the wealthy patrons and nobility of Europe, Mozart himself found this literally and figuratively a hard act to follow! Recently much has been made of the idea that most of his adult life was spent in reversing the influence of his well-meaning, but over-bearing father.
However this social problem was never a <musical> problem, Mozart being the versatile and dynamic master composer that he was, wrote in almost every major genre, including symphony, opera, the solo concerto, chamber music including string quartet and string quintet, and the piano sonata. While none of these genres were new, the piano concerto was almost single-handedly developed and popularized by Mozart. However it was in opera that Mozart found his true love and one could say that his creative life centered on it.
Mozart’s last years were lived mostly in difficult financial circumstances, but they also produced some of his finest works. During this time Mozart wrote a great deal of music, including some of his most admired works: the opera The Magic Flute, the final piano concerto (K. 595 in B flat), the Clarinet Concerto K. 622, and the unfinished Requiem K. 626.
Mozart died at 1 on the morning on December 5 and was buried in an unmarked grave – as was custom for those without the means to afford a proper burial.
In the usual Hollywood obfuscation of history style and to aid the intellectually challenged American public appreciates the phenomenon of Mozart; his death has been presented as being directly linked to the Italian composer Antonio Salieri which is anything but true. Put very simply Mozart died from the effects of poverty.
Salieri was a 2nd or even 3rd rate composer, and it is true was a scheming, jealous and devious Vienna court favorite. He recognized Mozart’s genius early on and actively sought to stymie and frustrate him and used his considerable influence at the royal court to become an irritant to Mozart’s success.
This then is the shameful legacy of Salieri,- along with most of the other double-dealing and deceitful Austrian court gentry and Catholic church hierarchy to whom Mozart was forced to sell his services – to have abetted in thwarting the greatest musical mind the world has yet produced.
However in spite of his tribulations and general neglect in his native Austria, the Czechs of Prague knew a musical genius when they heard one! The citizens of Prague provided Mozart with his greatest successes in his life-time where tunes of his opera’s were sung on the streets and rewarded with great acclaim and recognition.
Along with humanity in general -who rightly consider him a musical treasure- many composers consider Mozart as the greatest example of their art. These include Richard Strauss, Maurice Ravel and Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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Yes that old Wolfgang -A light+weight and a heavy weight at the same time. There is a story about him waiting his turn at a game of billiards and staring out over the open window in a sort of daze. His game partner asked him…..”Heh Wolf ………what are you thinking about?” ………answer by a not at all phased Mozart….”Oh what I always think about…….death!”