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Mozart's symphonic production covers a 24-year interval, from 1764 to 1788. According to most recent investigations, Mozart wrote not just the 41 symphonies reported in traditional editions, but up to 68 complete works of this type. However, by convention, the original numbering has been retained, and so his last symphony is still known as "No ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [a] [b] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time.
Mozart's texts came from a variety of sources, and the early operas were often adaptations of existing works. [b] The first librettist chosen by Mozart himself appears to have been Giambattista Varesco, for Idomeneo in 1781. [9] Five years later, he began his most enduring collaboration, with Lorenzo Da Ponte, his "true phoenix". [10]
The Magic Flute (German: Die Zauberflöte, pronounced [diː ˈtsaʊbɐˌfløːtə] ⓘ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form during the time it was written that included both singing and spoken dialogue.
Mozart: spurious and doubtful works (28 P) A. Arias by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (3 C, 16 P) B. ... Veni Sancte Spiritus (Mozart) Vesperae solennes de confessore;
First page of the autograph of Mozart's Great Mass in C minor. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) composed several masses and separate mass movements (such as Kyrie). [1] Mozart composed most of his masses as a church musician in Salzburg: Masses for regular Sundays or smaller feasts belonged to the missa brevis type. In the context of ...
Pages in category "Lists of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
These two works, one the first minor-key concertos Mozart wrote (both K. 271 and 456 have a minor-key second movement) and a dark and stormy work, and the other sunny, are among Mozart's most popular. The final concerto of the year, K. 482 (No. 22 in E ♭ major), is slightly less popular. Mozart is not known to have written cadenzas for these ...