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Wolfgang Amandeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amandeus Mozart. Block-3. 3/28/14. Composition title: Symphony 29 K.201. Date Finished or premiered: April 6 th 1774 Period in which it was composed: Classical . Composer: Full Name- Wolfgang Amandeus Mozart Born- January 27 th 1756 in Cites Salzburg

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Wolfgang Amandeus Mozart

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  1. Wolfgang Amandeus Mozart Block-3 3/28/14

  2. Composition title: Symphony 29 K.201 Date Finished or premiered: April 6th 1774 Period in which it was composed: Classical Composer: Full Name- Wolfgang Amandeus Mozart Born- January 27th 1756 in Cites Salzburg Died- December 5th 1791 in Vienna

  3. Nationality: Austrian/German City of residence: Vienna, Salzburg and Paris

  4. Composer’s background 1. Composed his 1st symphony at age 8 2. Premiered his 1st opera at age 12 3. (1770) Mozart receives the Order of the Golden Spur from Pope Clement. He begins 10 years of unhappy employment of the Archbishop of Salzburg. 4. He married ConstanzeWeber, She was one of his students he fell in love with her sister but she refused to marry him 5. (1783) Mozart and his wife traveled to Salzburg, where he composed one of his greatest pieces, 'Mass in C Minor'

  5. . Overview of entire musical career 1. With fathers encouragement and guidance he was introduced to music at a very young age 2. Although success as a pianist and a composer, hisextraragent 3.When in Rome, Mozart wrote and entire score from memory after hearing it once. 4. He moved to Venice to become freelance musician preforms composers 5. 1784 was the year Mozart had the most important performance- one 5 week period- 22 concerts!

  6. Historicalsignificance: 1. 1.symponies: No 36 and 38-41 2. Choral: Ave verum corpus K. 618 and Requien K. 626 3. Concertos: Piano Concerto (K. 595 in B-flat) Piano concerto N. 21 in C.K. 467 4. Clarinel concerto K. 622 5. Operas: The magic flute, Don Giolbum, Marage of figure

  7. Composer’s output 1. 41 symphonies . 2. 18 piano sonatas 3. 20 operas 4. 17 church sonatas 5. 3 ballet works 6. 30 canons

  8. Compositional techniques A. Form:Allegro B. Meter(s): 4/4 Tempo (i) 80=half note gets the beat C. Key(s): D major D. Orchestration/instrumentation: Orchestra,2 oboes,2 horns E. Style/texture: Chamber music style, Classical

  9. Meaning/ significance of title It begins softly in the strings, with an octave drop, the theme subsequently repeated in skipping octaves as the oboes and horns join in. The second theme, introduced by the first violins, is marked by a recurrent trill. Movement two is the symphony's warmly beating heart, a serenade for muted violins which, to quote Edward Downes (the late musicologist, not the late conductor), reveals “an enchanting Rococo ornamentation and delicate texture which seems closer to that of a string quartet than of a symphony.”

  10. Performance difficulties A. Individual 1. Mellie- 16th notes at mm 27-31 and 65-66 2. Sikna- the ending (80-the end) 3. Navjot- mm 80-the end 4. Daniel- mm 68-69- the tone was not right, mm 55-56- the pitch was off, mm 83-87- the tone was off. 5. Ricardo-mm 80-the end 6. Kintrell- bowings and articulation

  11. Section/ Ensamble 1. Violas/3rds - The 16th notes @ mm27-31, 65-66, 80-the end. 2. Cello- It was hard to stay together and follow the tempo the conductor gave us, hard to keep up in measures 27-32 and 61-69, because most people didn’t play the right tempo. (??)

  12. 1. Mozart's music, like Haydn's, stands as an archetypal example of the Classical style. His works spanned the period during which that style transformed from one exemplified by the style galant to one that began to incorporate some of the contrapuntal complexities of the late Baroque, complexities against which the galant style had been a reaction. Mozart's own stylistic development closely paralleled the development of the classical style as a whole. In addition, he was a versatile composer and wrote in almost every major genre, including symphony, opera, the solo concerto, chamber music including string quartet and string quintet, and the piano sonata. While none of these genres were new, the piano concerto was almost single-handedly developed and popularized by Mozart. He also wrote a great deal of religious music, including masses; and he composed many dances, divertimenti, serenades, and other forms of light entertainment.

  13. 2. He wrote what he liked 3. The influence of Mozart on the composers that followed cannot be emphasized too strongly 4. During his years in Vienna, Mozart also made the acquaintance of composer Franz Joseph Haydn. The two became close friends and the older composer's music had a profound influence on Mozart 5. Between 1782 and 1785, Mozart composed a series of six string quartets which he dedicated to Haydn. Upon playing through some of them together, Haydn said to Mozart's father, who was present, "Before God and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer I know, either personally or by name."

  14. Additional comments

  15. 1. His name has 8 words (Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgang Theophillus Amadeus Gottlieb Sigismundus Mozart). 2. If you listen to all his music he has ever made for 8 hours a day, it would take you almost 1,500 years to listen to it all. 3. People nicknamed Mozart Wolfie through his life.

  16. 4. When Mozart was younger he played the harpsichord so well that he was thought as a midget at rituals. I found this investigating because he was so good that he probably played better than a man in his thirties as a nine year old.

  17. 5. In the 1950s, an ear, nose and throat doctor named Albert Tomatis began the trend, claiming success using Mozart's music to help people with speech and auditory disorders. In the 1990s, 36 students in a study at the University of California at Irvine listened to 10 minutes of a Mozart sonata before taking an IQ test. According to Dr. Gordon Shaw, the psychologist in charge of the study, the students' IQ scores went up by about 8 points. The "Mozart effect" was born. A musician named Dan Campbell trademarked the phrase and created a line of books and CDs based on the concept, and states such as Georgia, Florida and Tennessee set aside money for classical music for babies and other young children. Campbell and others have gone on to assert that listening to Mozart can even improve your health.

  18. 6. He wrote half the number of symphonies he had ever wrote from the ages of 8-19 7. After only hearing a piece of music once, he could play it perfect without the music 8. At the age of four he could learn a piece of music in half an hour. 9. Wrote his first symphony at age of six.

  19. Sources: http://www.laco.org/performances/179/?program=1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._29_(Mozart) https://sites.google.com/site/wolfgangamadeusmozart12123/fun-facts http://www.biography.come/people/woldgang-Motzart-9417115 http://en.wikipedia.org wolfgang-amadeus.at › music_of_Mozart‎

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