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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

JANUARY 27, 1767 - DECEMBER 5 1791

MOZART’S CHILDHOOD

  • Mother was named Anna Maria
  • Father was named Leopold he was a famous violinist
  • He was a child prodigy
  • He had a sister named Maria Anna
  • He had 7 siblings but 5 of them didn’t survive
  • When he was 4 he wrote short pieces

MORE OF MOZART’S CHILDHOOD

  • At the age of 6 he started composing
  • At the age of 11 he wrote his first opera
  • He was born in Salzburg, Austria

DURING MOZART’S LIFE

  • He wrote 47 symphonies
  • He composed during the baroque period
  • Mozart’s dramatic music made him more popular in the music world
  • At the age of 13 he had acquired a considerable fluency in the musical language
  • He had a strange sense of humor
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MORE OF MOZART’S LIFE

  • His father described him as “The miracle which god let be born in Salzburg”
  • In mid-October he worked on a new opera, he had to rewrite several numbers to satisfy the singers
  • He wrote some of music’s most enduring operas

EVEN MORE OF MOZART’S LIFE

  • Mozart usually wrote music for the keyboard, violin and harpsichord
  • Mozart’s favorite instrument was the viola
  • The majority of Mozart’s music was symphonies, classical sonatas, concertos and minuets
  • He had a wife named Constanze Mozart
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LAST PART OF MOZART’S LIFE

  • He made friends with all kinds of people
  • He hated the trumpet
  • He had big ambitions
  • He wasn’t very organized
  • He loved shopping

THE END OF MOZART’S LIFE

  • Mozart died when he was 35
  • He died on December 5, 1791in Vienna
  • He died when he was poor and deeply in debt
  • He died while working on a song
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REQUIEM

  • https://youtu.be/BzsrqaLgdpk
  • He died while writing this song
  • This is one of Mozart’s best pieces
  • Requiem was written during 1791
  • Franz Xavier Süssmayor finished the song for him
Photo by Geert Pieters