Example Of Biography On Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician of playing manifold instruments. He started performing in public at the pretty early age of 6. Over the years, Mozart has had a variety of European venues and patrons, composing hundreds of works: symphonies, sonatas, concertos and operas, distinguished as ones with vivid emotion and sophisticated textures.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s was the only living son of Leopold and Maria Pertl Mozart. Leopold was a successful composer, violinist, and assistant of the concert master at the Salzburg court. He also had a sister named Anna Maria. Music as an art was introduced to them with the help of their father’s encouragement at an early age. Looking at his father tutoring Anna to play keyboard, Mozart quickly acquired the basic understanding of chords, tonality, and tempo. In the short time he was being by his father as well.
In 1762, Wolfgang’s father took Anna of eleven ages and a six years old son to the court of Bavaria in Munich, where the first several European performances occurred. There were numerous tours to the European cities during which young composer met a number of accomplished musicians of that time. The most important acquaintance made was with Johann Christian Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach's youngest son) in London, who had strongly influenced Wolfgang.
In December 1769, Wolfgang, and his father departed for an Italian tour (1769-1771), which lasted longer, than the others, as composer’s father wanted to present his son’s abilities as a composer to a wide number of audiences. While staying in Rome, Mozart heard Gregorio Allegri’s performing his Miserere in the Sistine Chapel. During this time, Wolfgang also wrote a new opera called Mitridate re di Ponto for his concert in Milan. Travelling through Italy, composer wrote two additional operas, Ascanio in Alba (1771) and Lucio Silla (1772).
Wolfgang returned from Italy with his father in March of 1773. Upon their return, the newly appointed archbishop granted Mozart, as an assistant of the concertmaster, with a small salary. At this time, young composer was working work in different musical genres composing symphonies, string quartets, sonatas and serenades, and operas. He developed a deep passion for violin concertos and produced five of them as the result. Later on he turned his efforts towards piano, culminating in the Piano Concerto Number 9 in E flat major in early 1777.
Despite his success composing, Mozart was growing unsatisfied with his position of an assistant and the lack of opportunities in his hometown. That is why in August 1777, Mozart set out on a trip to find more prosperous employment, joined by his older sister Anna, to the cities Mannheim, Paris and Munich. During that time they had several employment possibilities that initially seemed promising, but in the long run they didn’t turn out to be working. When Mozart became short of funds he had to pawn several personal items to pay for their living. But the most disappointing in the whole trip was the news of his mother falling ill and dying on July 3 of 1778. After his mother’s death, Wolfgang was given a new position of a court organist in Salzburg, so he decided to return home.
Back in Salzburg, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote a series of church works, including the Coronation Mass; he also composed another opera for Munich concerto titled Ideomeneo. After the unfair and offending treatment of him by Archbishop, while attending the accession of Joseph II to the Austrian throne, Mozart decided to reassign his post, and stayed as a freelance performer and composer in Vienna; he also lived with friends at the home of Fridolin Weber for quite some time. Wolfgang quickly found work in Vienna by taking on students, playing several concerts and writing music for publication. He also started his work on an opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio). In the summer of 1782, Mozart got married to Fridolin Weber’s daughter, Constanze, though Wolfgang’s father disapproved the marriage. The couple had six children, though only two survived infancy, Karl Thomas and Franz Xaver.
Being affected by the works of Johannes Sebastian Bach and George Frederic Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed several operas in the Baroque style; this also influenced many of his later compositions, such as passages in Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) and the finale of Symphony Number 41. At that time, Mozart met Joseph Haydn and the two became sincer friends.
The opera Die Entführung got immediate and lasting attention and success, thus bolstering Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s name and talent throughout Europe. He and his wife enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle, living in one of the most expensive apartments in Vienna, they sent their son to a prestigious boarding school, kept servants, and maintained a busy social life. In 1784, Mozart became a Freemason, an order focusing on charitable work, moral uprightness, and the development of fraternal friendship. Freemasonry also strongly influenced Mozart’s music.
Toward the end of 1785, Mozart got acquainted the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, a Venetian composer with whom he collaborated on the opera The Marriage of Figaro. It was successfully premiered in Vienna in 1786 and was even more warmly received in Prague later on. This triumph led to a second collaboration with Da Ponte on the opera Don Giovanni which was presented to the public in 1787. Noted for their complexity, the two operas remain among Mozart’s most important works.
In December, 1787, Emperor Joseph II appointed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as his "chamber composer" as to keep the esteemed composer from leaving Vienna.
Toward the end of the 1780s, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s life began to worsen. He started to perform less and thus his income shrank. By mid-1788, Mozart moved his family from central Vienna to the suburbs of Alsergrund. Living there he wrote his last three symphonies, and the last of the three - Cosi fan tutte was presented in 1790. The two-year period of 1788-1789 turned out to be a low point for Mozart, who was experiencing deep depression.
Between 1790 and 1791, now in his mid-thirties, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had a period of wonderful music productivity and personal healing. Some of his greatest works -- the opera The Magic Flute, the Clarinet Concerto, and the unfinished Requiem were written during at that time.
However, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s mental and physical health was gradually deteriorating. In September, 1791, while attending the premier of the opera La clemenza di Tito in Prague, his health failed. After that Mozart had recovered briefly to conduct the Prague premier of The Magic Flute, but fell even deeper into illness in November. Constanze, and her sister, Sophie, came to nurse him back to health, but Mozart was mentally preoccupied with finishing Requiem, so their efforts proved to be useless.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died on December 5 of1791 at the age of 35. Unfortunately, despite his musical fame, only few mourners attended the funeral and he was buried in a common grave. His death came at a young age, even for that time. Composer is believed to be one of the greatest composers in the history of mankind.