Mozart and Classical Music

Mozart and Classical Music

Introduction

Mozart is one of the most prominent music masters ever lived in the history of music. He was born on twenty seven January 1756 in Salzburg, a part of Austria. He is very talented since his era of childhood. His father name is Leopold Mozart who is a business man, violinist and also an assistant of court concertmaster at the court of Salzburg. His mother name is Anna Maria Pert. He get “Johannes Chrysostomus” slogan before his name Wolfgangus Gottlieb Mozart due to the honor of his maternal grandfather and a Saint. He commonly called Mozart. His geniuses can be derived from saying of Berlioz H., The marvelous beauty of his quintets, quartets and of some of his sonatas is that it first converted me to this genius level, whom I worshipped (Berlioz H., et.al, 2002, P 9). Similarly According to Solman, the purity of work of Mozart falls from his intelligently composed music (Solman J., 1990, P 79).

Discussion

Starting phase of Mozart Music Career

Mozart born in such a family where music considered as very important part of life, his dreams and goals of life also related to music. He feels natural attraction towards music. Mozart learned and developed impressive interest in music. When he was at very small age of fifteen, he starts composing. At that time, he composed certain small and beautiful melodious numbers. When father of Mozart realize this musical talent in his son, he decided to provide him an opportunity to showcase their talent in front of the world. Therefore, in this regard, in mid 1763, at this small age of six, Mozart and Anna Maria who is his elder sister creates a milestone in many concerts in European Courts of London and Paris in the form of performance. They also gave some outstanding performances in major cities where they get a flourishing fame and worthwhile promotion from many music lovers. Wolfgangus and his elder sister played violin and piano which is very successful to grab the attraction of their audiences. They also played music in front of the royal families, Bavarian elector, and the Austrian empress.

Struggling years in Mozart music history

Unsuccessful tour of Vienna

Mozart wrote and published his first composition at the age of nine, when he also started writing symphonies. When he comes back from his first tour in 1766, the demand of his music increased up to a very large scale. Due to this high demand, the Mozart family again plans another tour just after nine months of Vienna tour. However, due to some very serious and crucial problems, Mozart could not show his skills in Vienna tour.

Life after Vienna tour

After reaching home from that failure tour of Vienna, Wolfgangus give him a direction to concentrate on learning and improving creative skills in his music. For this reason, he decides to avoid any tour till the year of 1770. In following three years of his life from 1770 to 1773, he takes tour of Italy 3 times and perform ...