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Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14, 1719 – May 28, 1787) was a German composer, violinist, and music theorist. [1] He is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule (1756).
Portrait of the Mozart Family [a] is an oil painting of four members of the Mozart family created between late 1780 and early 1781 and traditionally attributed to Johann Nepomuk della Croce. The painting depicts in the foreground the siblings Wolfgang Amadeus and Maria Anna "Marianne" Mozart together playing a fortepiano , and their father ...
Portrait of the Mozart Family, c. 1780: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with his sister Maria Anna and father Leopold, on the wall a portrait of his dead mother Anna Maria. The Mozart family were the ancestors, relatives, and descendants of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
In the spring of 1783, Mozart had the miniature sent to his father in Salzburg, alongside a similar one of Constanze, both referenced in a letter. [ 73 ] [ 74 ] Lange's relationship with Mozart went beyond common family ties: both were masons and went in the same social circles.
Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia "Marianne" Mozart (30 July 1751 – 29 October 1829), nicknamed Nannerl, was a highly regarded musician from Salzburg, Austria.In her childhood, she made tremendous progress as a keyboard player under the tutelage of her father Leopold, to the point that she became a celebrated child prodigy, touring much of Europe with her parents and her younger brother Wolfgang ...
On this social nonconformism that Mozart displayed throughout his life, it is worth mentioning the parting of ways with who had been his patron and protector since childhood, Hieronymus von Colloredo, Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, who had an excellent relationship with the composer's father.
Following the advice of his father, [7] Mozart wore his insignia in public, and in particular to a dinner arranged by a young aristocrat named Jakob Alois Karl Langenmantel. Langenmantel and his brother-in-law teased Mozart mercilessly about the insignia, and Mozart ultimately was moved to reply very sharply and eventually depart. [ 8 ]
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart was born in Vienna, four months and ten days before his father's death. Although he was baptized Franz Xaver Mozart, he was always called Wolfgang by his family. [ 2 ] He received excellent musical instruction from Antonio Salieri and Johann Nepomuk Hummel , and studied composition with Johann Georg Albrechtsberger ...