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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.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) was a prolific composer who wrote in many genres. Perhaps his best-admired works can be found within the categories of operas, piano concertos, piano sonatas, symphonies, string quartets, and string quintets.
Constanze Mozart, as depicted by her brother-in-law Joseph Lange (1782). Mozart scholarship long followed the accounts of early biographers, which proceeded in large part from the recorded memories of his widow Constanze and her sister Sophie Weber as they were recorded in the biographies by Franz Niemetschek and Georg Nikolaus von Nissen.
Unique among composers, Mozart ended all his mature operas, starting with Idomeneo, in the key of the overture. [4] [5] Ideas and characterisations introduced in the early works were subsequently developed and refined.
This is a list of composers of the Classical music era, roughly from 1730 to 1820.Prominent classicist composers [1] [2] [3] include Christoph Willibald Gluck, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Stamitz, Joseph Haydn, Johann Christian Bach, Antonio Salieri, Muzio Clementi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Luigi Boccherini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Niccolò Paganini, Gioachino Rossini and Franz Schubert.
Mozart often wrote sketches, from small snippets to extensive drafts, for his compositions.Though many of these were destroyed by Mozart's widow Constanze, [1] about 320 sketches and drafts survive, covering about 10 percent of the composer's work.
This is a list of symphonies by the classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Symphonies No. 2 (attributed to Leopold Mozart) and 3 (written by Carl Friedrich Abel) are spurious. Mozart's "37th symphony" is actually Michael Haydn's 25th symphony; Mozart only added a 20-bar slow introduction to it.
Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 20 and 21. Cambridge Music Handbooks. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-48475-8. Hutchings, Arthur (1997). A Companion to Mozart's Piano Concertos. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-816708-3. Mozart, W. A. Piano Concertos Nos. 1–6 in full score. Dover Publications, New York. ISBN 0-486-44191-1