Mozart's Life
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- Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in January of 1756.
- Mozart and his Sister Maria Anna were the only two of seven kids to survive past infancy.
- How much longer do we have to stand here mom?
- Just a little while longer
- Mozart's father, Leopold was an experienced court musician who tought, composed and played Paino and Violin.
- Yes! Yes! now do it again
- Ohh
- At 3 years old Mozart was teachable. He was able to recognized chords and play them
- Wolfgang listened to his sister's Clavier lessons and was inspired by her talent.
- At 4 years old Mozart was mastering pieces faultlessly after listening to his sister within a short periods time.
- He just learned that in an hour!
- At the same age Mozart began learning the violin.
- Is this right?
- Yes you're getting the hang of it son.
- Soon After, Mozart composed a Clavier concerto that shocked his father and friends.
- I feel like it is my duty to god to publicize our sons gift!
- Soon After Mozart had turned 5, he began his walk of fame starting with a concert tour, from Salzburg to Munich.
- Mozart soon started having much longer tours, he would be performing multiple concerts a day
- He has a god given gift!
- How does he perform this level of music in front of this many people!?
- Thank you ma'am
- Little Mozart was also starting to get rewarded for his great performances.
- Since you had a great performance I want to reward you
- It's cash
- Mozart ended up paying the price for going on tour. He was frequently ill. Colds, scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, and smallpox were some of the illnesses and diseases he experienced
- Mozart occasionally speeding the families progress through customs by charming the officers with his violin.
- When Mozart was 7, the Mozarts went on a tour that lasted 3 and a half years.
- I'm going to miss home mama
- I know son, but everyone wants to see you play Wolfgang
- Nannerl is waiting outside!
- The more that Mozart grew up, he realized that his father wasn't sympathetic and was forceful upon him.
- I wonder if he loves me
- Are you ready to perform that concerto?
- Leopold's devotion in life was to the strategizing and promotion involved with gaining new audiences.
- When Mozart was 21, Leopold was called on for his own affairs in Salzburg. Mozart took this opportunity to go on tour with only his easily manipulated mother.
- Mozart was becoming more and more eager to cast off Leopold's suffocating control.
- Leopold's influence was declining. Wolfgang had suddenly spun out of his orbit and beyond his control.
- On tour in Paris, Mozart met several German composers, and Mozarts first music was published.
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- 125 beats per minute is ideal
- In London they met Johan Christian Bach, the son of Johan Sebastian Bach
- You're a smart young one. Pleasure to work with you.
- With his guidance, Mozart composed his first symphonies
- Leopold’s letters to friends in Salzburg tell of the universal admiration that his son’s achievements aroused.
- I wonder why he know I work so hard and still has a grip on me
- Well into Wolfgang's middle 20s, his father continued to keep his money, even commissions for Wolfgang's operas and his performance earnings.
- Wolfgang was in love, with a young woman his father found quite unsuitable
- Will you marry me?
- Of Course Wolfgang!
- Leopold was "affronted beyond measure" when his son finally married Constanze Weber. Mozart was married at age 26.
- When Leopold died, he left all his money and Wolfgang's treasured musical scores with Nannerl. He also divided some personal property between the two.
- Why did you guys treat me like this? I worked so hard!
- Wolfgang gave up all rights to the personal property and paid his sister to return to him his own scores.
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