4.2.+Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart

​  __​**Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. This was the real name of, at least for me, the best classical music composer ever, although he later changed Wolfgangus for Wolfang and Theophilus for Amadeus. This is his interesting biography:** __

Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria. Son of Anna Maria Pertl and Leopold Mozart which was a well-known compositor of that time who worked in the court orchestra of the Archbishop of Salzburg. In that time the infant mortality was so high and mozart and his sister Marie Anne were the only survivors of seven children. They both were so good in music in general and playing some particular instruments, Marie Anne playing the keyboard and Wolfgang the clavier, the harpsichord and the violin. At the age of four Mozart started composing small minuets to his father, while he was getting older his pieces become more complex and better and his quality playing instruments too. Bit by bit the two brothers get being famous as prodigy children. Being it usefull they do lots of travels around Europe, playing in lots of courts where they were invited by kings, princes and other nobel, rich or important people of that period (the classicism). One of the travels they do were: in Munich, in the Court of the prince of Bavaria Maximiliano III and later in the same year in the imperial court of Jose II of Hapsburg in Vienna and Prague. The most important travel was the one they spend 3 years and a half: in this travel, they went to Viena where they were invited to the empress palace, they played in the Versailles palace too in front of Lewis XV. In London they play for the monarch George III and there he meet the son of Johan Sebastian Bach: Johan Christian Bach who was more important than his father then. In Holland he played the most difficult and complex organ of the world. Finally, he return to Salzburg at 1766. At the age of 14, he went to Italy to the filarmonyc academy of Bolonya, after this, the Salzburg's archebisb who always had helped them died. Then started a difficult period for him because the new archebisb reduced his salary and his liberty, in fact, he felt like an slave. In a trip to Munich he fell in love with Aloysia Weber but she didn't feel the same over him so he had to conform with Aloysia's young sister: Constanza, he get married with her against the opinion of his father and they went to Viena to live, where they had two children. On march of 1791 an unknown blackdressed person presented at Mozart's home and ask him if he could make a requiem. Then he thought that the man was a messenger of the destiny and that the requiem was for himself. This happening and the death of his father makes him become a bit insane. then was known that the person who asked him to make the requiem was trully the Franz Walsseg count, the requiem was for his dead wife. Then his health started getting worst slowly, until he died in Viena on 5th desember of 1791 at the age of 35. He had a simple burial, like the one that normal people had, in fact, he was buried in a common pit so, it's impossible actually to now where his rests are...

__**Works**__

Mozart marked the end of the Baroque style and the begining of the clasic style (of the clasicism). He was a very versatile composer, and he composed music for all the music genres there were: chamber music, concerts, operas, symphonies and religious music. We've got here the, most important works clasified in some of the genres I've already mentioned: __operas__: The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte, Idomeneo and Die Zauberflöte. __masses__: Conoration mass, sonatas da chiesa, mass in minor do, Ave verum corpus (well, it was a mothet but I include it here because it's religious..), and finally, of course, his famous and misterious requiem because as we all know, he died while he was composing it and there are a lot of myths about it. (I'll talk about it later). __symphonies__: 25th symphony, 32nd symphony, 35th symphony, 38th symphony, 40th symphony, 41st symphony. If you wanna listen to some of this pieces or others go to this website: ** [] **


 * __Commented piece__** (40th symphony)

(not all the piece, only 2 min.)

Mozart finished the symphony number 40 (in G minor), on 25th July of 1788. He composed it in a brilliant moment of his career. In this piece, he wanted to reflect his sadness. which chitics say is pathethic.. It has four diferent movements: 1st movement (motto allegro), 2nd movement (andante), 3rd movement (Menuetto Allegretto-trio) 4th movement (Allegro Assai).

To listen the whole movements go here: []) The instruments of the orquestra were: flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 fagotes, 2 horns and a section of string instruments: violins(1sts ans 2nds), violas, chelos and double basses.

About this piece I personally think that is one of at least, the four bests pieces he composed, I like it basically because of it's nice melody and harmony which make you to be calmed and relaxed.

media type="youtube" key="OL7YF0Djruk" height="344" width="425" Die Zauberflöte (papaggeno i papaggena) media type="youtube" key="TKhtukRl8Ow" height="344" width="425" Die Zauberflöte (queen of the night)
 * __videos__**:

__**"Amadeus" film**__

[] the base of thisfilm is the mistery of the death of Mozart envolving Salieri with it and Mozart's life.


 * __powerpoint presentation__**



__**pictures**  (Young Mozart playing piano) __ (__Mozart playing violin__)

__( Young Mozart (at the piano), playing in versailles in one of his multiple travels with his father (playing violin)and his sister (singing).__

 (__Marie Anne, at first Mozart fell in love with her, but then she refused him)__ __(Constanza, Mozart's wife)__

__**Made by Albert Carreras.**__