Jupiter : Symphony No. 41

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

of a Jupiter Symphony The year is 1788 as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began to work on his last three symphonies during a time of strife for musicians as the Austro-Turkish War continues to war on in Austria. Tired from moving his family from central Vienna to the suburbs of Alsergrund all while in debt to his ears as he continued to borrow money from friends including a fellow mason, Michael Puchberg, Mozart finished his final symphony on August 10, 1788. This piece, nicknamed the “Jupiter Symphony

The first piece of music is Mozart’s Symphony
NO.41 “Jupiter” (K
551); it was Mozart’s last symphony before his death. It is conducted by Hartmut Haenchen, with a reduced ensemble of the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra. It is an orchestral piece which is performed at the Konzerthaus Berlin. The second piece of music is Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77; it was Brahms’ only violin concerto. It was performed at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in 2002, and was conducted by Claudio

ranges from comedy to tragedy. Mozart wrote over forty symphonies, many of which are performed today. Some originally were overtures (orchestral introductions) for operas, and last only a few minutes. His later symphonies, which are the most popular, are full-length orchestral compositions that last twenty to thirty minutes. Most of them consist of four sections. Mozart’s last and most famous symphony, Number 41 (1788), is nicknamed the Jupiter. Mozart composed a great amount of church music, most

On April 29th, 2016 the Yale School of Music with the Yale Phillharmonia had conductor Peter Oundjian as their season closer, which featured Motzarts Symphony No. 41 in C Major, “Juipiter”, and Hoslt’s “The Planets” as their featured pieces. When I first walked into the concert hall, I noticed the depth of the sound when people were talking. The sound seemed to echo even though people were talking in hushed tones. The sound seemed to vibrate off the walls just from pure conversation so I was excited

courts at Vienna and Munich. Encouraged by their reception, they embarked the next year on a longer tour, including two weeks at Versailles, where the children enchanted Louis XV. In 1764 they arrived in London. Here Mozart wrote his first three symphonies,

Anna Maria Pertl, Wolfgang Amadeus was born in Salzburg on January 27, 1756. Considered by many to be one of the greatest musical prodigies in history, by the age of three he was already a keyboard-player and violinist. By five he was composing symphonies. Leopold Mozart (1719-1787), his father, undertook complete responsibility for the tutoring of Wolfgang and his elder sister Maria Anna ('Nannerl'), an extremely gifted keyboard player in her own right. Mozart spent from 1774 to 1777, as Konzertmeister

traveling with his mother, sought employment elsewhere. They stayed at Mannheim, where he composed some piano concertos and flute quartets, and fell in love with a coloratura soprano, Aloysia Weber. In 1778 his mother died in Paris. He composed the Paris symphony the same year. His father then persuaded him to return to Salzburg. Mozart visited the Webers on his way back to find that Aloysia seemed to have forgotten him entirely.      Back in Salzburg, Mozart reluctantly accepted

Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence theory challenged traditional beliefs in the field of education and cognitive science. He is a psychologist professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. According to a traditional definition, intelligence is a uniform cognitive capacity people are born with. Simply put, intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligences proposes that all human beings possess each of the nine intelligences

40, 1st Movement "Allegro" Without a doubt this is Mozart's most famous symphony. The first movement in particular is extremely well known and is one of the most famous movements he created. This is probably the second most well known piece of music Mozart wrote, especially with todays listeners. Overture to "The Marriage of