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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Jeris Rathbun 5th Even

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

BIRTH DATE: 1756 DEATH DATE: 1791
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FACTS:

  • Great Requim/ mass of the dead was the piece he was writing when he fell ill and died
  • He wrote 41 symphonies while alive
  • Mozart was five when he first started composing
  • Mozart was 35 when he died
  • He was rich but he gambled so he died poor
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FACTS:

  • Full name before baptized:
  • Johann Chrysostomus Wolfgang Mozart.
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FACTS:

  • After was baptized:
  • Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart

SYMPHONY NO. 25 IN G MINOR

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FACTS ABOUT SYMPHONY NO.25 IN G MINOR

  • Legend has it that he wrote it in two days although that remains unsubstantiated

FACTS ABOUT SYMPHONY NO.25 IN G MINOR CONTINUED

  • It was played on Oct. 27th 1899 under the direction of Wilhelm Gericke

FACTS ABOUT SYMPHONY NO.25 IN G MINOR CONTINUED

  • In 1937 when rendered by the Alfred Wallenstein Sinfonietta
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FACTS ABOUT SYMPHONY NO.25 IN G MINOR CONTINUED

  • John Barbirolli and the New York Philharmonic performed it again in 1941 as part of their centennial season
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RESOURCES:

  • Britannica
  • Mr.Frew
  • Wikipedia
  • Biography
  • Spinks kids
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