Mozart's Operas

Introduction

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the most classical composer, who possess a special position in history of music and art. He is certainly one of the most talented musicians. At present, his talent has a strong hold in the classical music and his songs are typically heard in concerts throughout the world. Though Mozart passes away at a young age of 35 years, his legacy of works has endured, and people now regard it as masterpieces. On the other hand, his achievements were not only restricted to the work of a genius musician he worked hard and studied all though his life and put his heart and soul into his compositions. For this reason, Mozart is the most respected classical musician in the history of music.

On January 27, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart took birth in Salzburg, Austria, in the year 1975. His father was a talented violin player and music teacher; his father encouraged Mozart to play several musical instruments from the young age of 3 years, and by the age of five years, Mozart began composition of music for himself. In his young age, Mozart travelled a lot all over Europe. He spent his initial time in Vienna in 1770s, which was rewarding. During that period, he composed two operas Lucio Silla and Mitridate. After wards in the same decade his first operas were performed in Germany. In his home town of Salzburg, Mozart got the employment at the court of the Prince Archbishop from 1774 to 1777. At the same stage in this period, as a classical composer, he completed his complete violin concertos together with many masses, symphonies and six piano sonatas along with other pieces.

Mozart looked for more success as a classical composer, in the next few years; he travelled from Paris to Munich and back to Vienna. He increased his income from composition of music by teaching music or playing either privately or publicly. In 1782, Mozart got married with Constanze Weber, and he decided to dedicate his time to write piano concertos. He wrote fifteen piano concertos by the end of 1976. In the year 1976, Mozart teamed up with renowned librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte for comic operas that became his most popular works. These comic operas included “The Marriage of Figaro” and “Don Giovanni”. On the other hand, his health also decline substantially, and he died on 5th December, 1791. The doctor declared his death as a reason of fever, and somewhat a vague notion that resulted in extensive rumour as to the actual reason behind his death. Some people claimed that the death of Mozart took place because of rheumatic fever, whereas some believed that someone had poisoned Mozart.

The status of Mozart as an innovative and classical musician is the outcome of his ceaseless searching and experiments with different types of music. He made his style all over his life and, he did not just follow the major style of Baroque period. Especially he made his own piano concerto, and he brought ...