How Did Mozart Contribute To The Classical Period?

Not only did Beethoven’s father instruct him, he was also given lessons by multiple people who taught him the basic knowledge of music, and instructed him an assortment of instruments. Unfortunately, unlike Mozart, Beethoven did not continue his education beyond elementary school and only continued his studies in music. Mozart’s father taught his children not only music, but grammar, mathematics, language, moral and religious enlightenment, and other various components of education and electives. Therefore, Mozart was educated in many areas, unlike Beethoven’s family life was far different form Mozart’s’. At an early age, Beethoven had to help provide for his family after his father fell ill and started to consume alcohol heavily. Beethoven sacrificed his time to help provide for his family, especially for his two younger brothers. Luckily, working as an assistant organist, and holding a place on the court theater, Beethoven’s earnings were vast. Mozart however, traveled around Europe with his family performing for ambassadors and counts for his earnings. when he preformed the profits of the shows went toward his family, however the expenses to travel far out weighted any profit. Although while traveling, the family took many detours, the musical influences that they met and gained along the way only helped form Mozart’s compositions.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven are two of the greatest composers ever to write music. Both men lived in the early 18th and 19th century, but their music and influences are still felt today. The men faced similar experiences, yet they both lead very different lives. All together the pieces that these men composed amounts to over 300 published, and unpublished works of art. The people of their time period often had mixed feelings about these men, some “complained that Mozart’s music presented them with too many ideas and that his melodies moved from one to the next faster than audiences could follow, yet the ideas themselves seem effortless and natural, clear and

     Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s style unlike anyone else. Mozart was a master of counterpoint, fugue, and the other traditional compositional points of his day. He is also considered the best melody writer the world has ever known. Wolfgang perfected the grand forms of symphony, opera string quartet, and concerto made the classical period. “Mozart’s music is characterized by lucid ease and distinction of style....”2 Wolfgang wrote over 600 works which consisted of 21 stage and opera works, 15 masses, over 50 symphonies, 25 piano concertos, 12 violin concertos,27 concert arias, 17 piano sonatas, 26 string quartets, and many more. His operas range from comic baubles to tragic pieces. In his Requiem it illustrates the supreme vocal sounds in any of his work.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived during a period of great change in philosophy, art, religion and music. This change was brought about by the transition from the baroque period where the Catholic Church encouraged the arts to depict religious themes and the aristocracy ruled over the artists. The populace had very little power or recognition.

This paper discusses Mozart's life, his compositions and his importance to the world and the world of music. It explains how Mozart's music is still some of the most popular classical music played today and his life is still studied because his music is so well known and liked.

     Without a doubt, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, was probably the greatest genius in Western musical history. His father was a noted composer, pedagogue and author of a famous treatise on violin

An old man named Antonio Salieri winds up in a refuge in the wake of cutting his throat and shouting that he executed Mozart. In the shelter, Father Vogler, a youthful minister, visits Salieri and urges him to admit the musings that are tormenting him. In light of the cleric's requests, Salieri starts a long story that starts in his youth and closures with Mozart's demise. As a young person, Salieri is enthusiastic about music, however his tyrannical father makes it unimaginable for him to seek after his fantasies.

He was one of the most well-known and influential composers in the Classical Era. In the early years of his life, Mozart proved to be a prodigy. Growing up he “mastered the universal technical difficulties of musical composition, such as counterpoint, harmony, fugue, variation, instrumentation, and formal planning (of arias, ensembles, sonatas, and rondos); yet all this learning never suppressed the element of fantasy. Mozart excelled in virtually every genre and style” (Rushton, Paragraph 1) Mozart composed over 600 works varying from concertos, operas, sonatas, and symphonies. During the years 1782—1785, Mozart performed a series of concerts, earing him a substantial amount of wealth. In 1786, he returned to opera where his career began to slowly decline, causing him and his family to change from the comfortable lifestyle they grew accustom to living frugally. 1791, the year Mozart died was a year of great productivity. He wrote many new works, such as The Magic Flute, Clarinet Concerto K.622, and Ave verum corpus K.618. Unfortunately, he became ill and his health began to deteriorate. He died December 5th, 1791 at the age of

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific European Composer during the 18th century where he made a lasting change on the musical world through his numerous compositions and excellence in his capabilities of playing many instruments perfectly. Mozart was born on January 27th, 1756, in Salzburg Austria. His father was Leopold Mozart who was a violinist, a minor composer, and Vice-Kapellmeister at the court of the Archbishop of Salzburg. His mother was Maria Anna Pertl. By the time Mozart was around four his father gave his sister music lessons, but without anyone knowing Mozart would absorb what they were talking about, and he started to awaken his gift. He started memorizing and playing songs just by hearing them and reciting them after. Mozart was four years old when he composed his first concerto for the clavier. On January 24, 1761, three days before his birthday, he learned a scherzo by Georg Christoph Wagenseil between nine and nine thirty at night an unusual time for a small child to be practicing in an age of no electric lights as Jeremy Siepmann says in Mozart His Life and His Music (5).

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a Classical period composer, concert pianist, violinist, and conductor who hailed from the city of Salzburg in modern day Austria. A musical prodigy, he was well-versed on the violin and keyboard, started composing music at the age of four, performed for European royalty, and begun touring as a concert pianist when he was eight. During these trips, he was exposed to the works of other composers and came to love opera; which influenced many of his compositions. He was well-known as a versatile composer who composed in almost every major genre: opera, instrumental works, chamber music, dances, symphony, concerti, choral music, and et. cetera. Mozart musical traits portray the archetype of the Classical period characterized

During his period many things happened. His entire family composed at one point in time his sister composed with him, his mother, his father, and himself. Along with Mozart, many great composers came out of the Classical period including  Ludwig Van Beethoven and Franz Joseph Haydn. Besides composers many important things came from the Classical time period including the American Revolution, the invention of the electric battery, the invention of the piano, and the invention of the clarinet. The French revolution was also going on during the classical period which would have affected mozart's life. Many other things happened then, these are just a few.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is an amazing composers he wrote music and excelled in every way. This talented composer was born on January 27,1756 in Salzburg, archbishopric of Salzburg Austria. At a early age this composer talent for music was remarkable at the age of three he was picking chords on the harpsichord. At the age of four years old Mozart was playing short pieces of music. A year later when Mozart was five he started to compose music. He had a precise memory when it came to pitch years later at the age of eight Mozart wrote his first symphony. With this gift of music and composing Mozart began to travel all over Europe with his father. Mozart father was a violinist and a composer they started to play together between the ages of seven and Mozart spent half of his time on tour. While Mozart was on tour he heard a variety of sounds and developed his own mature sound.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was known as one of the most remarkable and talented composers that ever lived. At 6 years old, he was already a master of the piano, playing at the level even experts with years of practice could never dream of achieving. Over the course of his life, he authored over 600 musical works, each one being better than the last. After the death of Mozart, people were left clueless as to which musical composition he would be best known for. However, one thing was certain; his best composition that only involved the piano was titled, “Turkish March.” It has become so popular in today’s society that other artists have created their own versions of the masterpiece. The most viewed version comes from a teenager by the name of Alex Brachet.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756, in Salzburg, Austria. Mozart quickly became “the most extraordinarily gifted child in the history of music” (Forney 169). Around the age of 3 Mozart became interested in playing the keyboard, “he could also recall prominent passages from the pieces that he heard” (Abert 19). At only reaching the age of four, Mozart’s father had already begun to teach him a number of minutes and other pieces on the keyboard, and not long before he was able to play them with total accuracy and in perfect time. “Soon he was moved to write music of his own and was still only four when he wrote his first short pieces, which he played to his father and which the latter duly notated” (Abert 19). Not only did Mozart begin to compose before he was five but by the age of thirteen, he had already written everything from sonatas to several operas. Leopold was the father of Mozart, which instantly gave him a strong foundation when it came to the musical background. Leopold Mozart was a well-respected court composer-violinist, he dedicated his life and energy to support his son’s talent. Not only was Mozart influenced by his father but also by Johann Christian Bach. At this time Mozart traveled to the courts of Paris, London, The Hague, and Zurich performing with all the other child prodigies, this is how Mozart met Bach following one of their performances. They quickly became friends and Mozart considered Bach as an instrumental influence in his work. During

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart lived from January 27, 1756 to December 5, 1791. Mozart was a very influential and prolific composer of more than 600 works, including symphonies, concertante, chamber, piano, opera, and choral music. Regarded as a child prodigy, Mozart composed and performed in the European courts from the age of five, and was engaged at the Salzburg court at 17. Mozart’s musical style can be classified as Classical, although he learned from many of his contemporaries throughout his musical career. In order to better understand Mozart’s genius it is best to begin looking at his earliest contributions to the musical world as a child. From there, an exploration of his