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Wolfgang A. Mozart

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

WOLFGANG A. MOZART

1-27-1756 TO 12-5-1791
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FAMILY BORN TO

  • Anna Maria Mozart
  • Leopold Mozart
  • It was cold when he was born
  • He had one surviving sister, Mary Anne
  • He was fed water instead of milk

Early Childhood

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27 1756 in Salzburg, Austria
  • At the age of 3 he was able to play the harpsichord and violin
  • By age 5 he had wrote his first song
  • He was 8 when he wrote Symphony No. 1

LATER CHILDHOOD

  • When he was 12 he an his dad, Leopold went to Italy where got accepted to Filarmonica in Bologna
  • He wrote Symphony No. 5 at the age of 9
  • The tour of France took 15 months

FAMILY

  • Constanze Mozart was his wife
  • He did not want to breast feed his children
  • He had 6 children
  • Only two survived infantcy
  • Raimund Leopold Mozart
  • Franz Xavier Morzart
Photo by Ben White

LATER IN HIS LIFE

  • Most of his pieces were written in his later life
  • When he was writing Requiem he thought that he was writing for his own funeral
  • Hw died around 1 am
  • He died because of a fever
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SOME OF HIS MOST FAMOUS PIECES WERE...

  • The magic flute
  • Symphony No. 13 in G Minor
  • Symphony No. 11 Rondo Alla Turca
  • Requiem
Photo by Sarah

FUN FACTS

  • Mozart was baptized on the day after he was born
  • He was the 7 and youngest child
  • Scared of the trumpet as a child
  • He died poor and was buried in a paupers grave
  • His father was a composer

FUN FACTS

  • He wrote over 600 pieces
  • It took about 200 hours to write all of his music
  • The magic flutes was the last opera he composed
  • He died poor because his habit of spending money
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MORE FUN FACTS

  • He moved to Vennia when he was 25
  • He wrote all kinds of music
  • He had a fondness for potty humor
  • People don’t know the exact spot where he was buried
  • He had a very elaboratefunral for his pet bird

RONDO ALLA TURCA

WEBSITES USED

  • Mozart.com
  • Britannica
  • Opera Philadelphia
  • Arts alive
  • Wikipedia
  • Wosu public Media