WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

CHILDHOOD

• When he was 5 he performed at the European royals for the queen and king.
• He is the youngest of 7 children 5 died in infancy
• Parents were leopard Mozart 1779-1787 and mom was Anna Maria Mozart 1720-1778

TRAVEL

• He was a child hood prodigy in 1762 at court of prince-elector Maximilian 3
• He had a long concert tour spanning three and a half years
• He met Johann Christian Bach
• His first symphony was made for his father

JOURNEY TO PARIS

• Returned home from Italy on 13 March 1773
• He was employed as Court musician by the ruler of Salzburg

VIENNA

• In January 1781 Mozart’s opera Idomeneo premiered with “considerable success”
• Mozart was summoned to Vienna where his employer Archbishop Colloredo was celebrating Joseph 2

EARLY YEARS

• He performed as a pianist in he new career in Vienna
• on 24 December 1781,[51] and he soon "had established himself as the finest keyboard player in Vienna

MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN

• After failing to win the hand of Aloysia Weber, who was now married to the actor and artist
• Raimund Leopold (17 June – 19 August 1783) Karl Thomas Mozart (21 September 1784 – 31 October 1858) Johann Thomas Leopold (18 October – 15 November 1786) Theresia Constanzia Adelheid Friedericke Maria Anna (27 December 1787 – 29 June 1788) Anna Maria (died soon after birth, 16 November 1789)[56] Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (26 July 1791 – 29 July 1844)

1782-87

• In 1782 and 1783, Mozart became intimately acquainted with the work of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel as a result of the influence of Gottfried van Swieten,

LATER YEARS

• Toward the end of the decade, Mozart's circumstances worsened. Around 1786 he had ceased to appear frequently in public concerts, and his income shrank.[74] This was a difficult time for musicians in Vienna

PIANO CONCERTO NO.21- ANDANTE

• https://youtu.be/df-eLzao63I

SYMPHONY NO.5 IN B FLAT

• https://youtu.be/lzicvVsKrRk

SYMPHONY NO.25 IN G MINOR

• https://youtu.be/7lC1lRz5Z_s
• It is a intense song really fast as well
• Slows down and then speeds up
• It is gently in the middle of the song

APPS I USED

• Wikipedia
• YouTube