Interesting facts about Mozart

Hello again!! Are you interested in Mozart?! Here you will find some interesting information about him.

 

-Mozart could write music before he could write words.

-He wrote half the number of total symphonies he would create between the ages of 8 and 19.

-Wolfgang Mozart’s second name, Theophilus, means “loved by God” in Greek. He liked to use the Latin translation, “Amadeus".

-He traveled extensively. He spent 14 of his 36 years away from home.

-He had several pets, including a dog, a starling, a canary, and a horse.

-His wife destroyed many of his sketches and drafts after his death.

-Mozart was a tenor. He was also left handed.

-He wrote more music in his short career than many other composers who lived much longer.

 

-According to Mozart’s wife, Constanze, at the end of Mozart’s life, he believed that he was being poisoned and he was composing his Requiem for himself. He died before finishing it. His student Franz Süssmayr completed the work, and it is this version that is most often heard today. Scholars still debate which parts Mozart truly wrote.

 

I'd recommend you to listen to his Requiem. I think that you will like it.

See you! :)

 

"Amadeus"

Hi guys!! Here you have a trailer about the film "Amadeus". It's a drama film directed by Miloš Forman.

The story begins in 1823 as the elderly Salieri attempts suicide by slitting his throat for having killed Mozart. Salieri is visited by a young priest who seeks to take his confession. Salieri is sullen and uninterested but eventually warms to the priest and launches into a long "confession" about his relationship with Mozart.
Salieri always envied Mozart his musical talent and wished he could be like him. The Austrian Emperor hears of Mozart and decides to commission an opera from him.
Mozart stays in Vienna, prolonging Salieri's agony, writing music so perfect that Salieri likens it to the very voice of God.
Eventually though, too many parties, too much hard work and not enough rest affects Wolfy's health, so Salieri decides to make the most of his enemy's precarious condition by working him to death.



I hope you like it!!

Mozart's biography

Hello!! If you are interested in Mozart, you wil find some information about him.

Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He was the youngest of seven children, five of whom died in infancy. He was baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, but his parents and his big sister called him "Wolfie". His father was a fine composer and musician who taught both of his children to play instruments. Mozart wrote songs that were so good, no one would believe that a child really wrote them!
Sometimes he was irresponsible, he spent too much money and he was not treated fairly for his work.

Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five. At 17, he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position.
He created a string of operas, concertos, symphonies and sonatas that profoundly shaped classical music. He composed over 600 works.

His health deteriorated on 20 November, at which point he became bedridden, suffering from swelling, pain, and vomiting. He was mentally occupied with the task of finishing his Requiem.
Mozart died in his home when he was 35. He did not finish this sad and beautiful work.

 

See you in the next post!