The Social and Personal Impediments Against Which Genius Has to Battle."

Mozart was an extremely childish, immature person; yet one of the most talented musicians of all time.

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

The human mind is constantly processing and picking up information. Music is an ordered and predictable sequence of sounds. When the brain hears music, it tries to decode it. In decoding those symbols and patterns, it sets up “neural highways, or synapses” , to receive and examine data. These pathways then can be used for remembering other symbol-oriented information, such as language and math. Like a muscle, the brain becomes stronger the more it is worked, and these workouts are achieved by listening to classical music. Mozart’s music is exceptionally difficult to decode, therefore the brain must work harder, thus making one smarter.

The film commences with the declaration of “Mozart! Mozart!” as opposed to the play’s “Salieri! Salieri!” In the play, Salieri doesn’t mention Mozart in his speech until the end. He goes on and on about his undying passion for absolute music and his dedication to his father, the Lord, until finally “The same year I left Lombardy, a young prodigy was touring

Murray Abraham) is placed in a lunatic asylum for attempting suicide. He is visited by Father Vegler, a young priest who seeks to take his confession. Salieri launches into a long confession about his relationship with Mozart. Salieri begins his career as a devout, God fearing man who believes his success and talent as a composer are God’s reward, for his piety. Mozart arrives in Vienna to perform for the prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. Salieri goes to the performance hoping to meet Mozart. He is convinced that Mozart’s genius must be a gift from God. He secretly observes Mozart but was shock to discover that rather than the Mozart he imagined, Mozart is in fact boorish, irreverent, and lewd. In 1781, when Mozart meets the emperor, Salieri presents Mozart with a “March of welcome”. After hearing the march only once, Mozart plays it from memory, tactlessly critiques it, and improvise a variation. This leads to his 1786 opera “The marriage of Figaro”. Faced with Mozart’s genius, Salieri realises his own mediocrity and suffers is much that he naturally arouses compassion. When Mozart becomes more desperate as the family’s expense increases and his commissions decrease. Salieri uses this chance to get his chance to avenge

Playful and boyish were just two characteristics Mozart exhibited. He was also described as being eccentric, rebellious, intelligent and quick-witted. He had a difficult time making the transition to adulthood. He was also said to be a compulsive gambler, and was in debt by the early 1790s.

Throughout history there have been demonstrations of grit and the correlation to cognitive ability developing strongly through childhood. Mozart, was most commonly related to being a “child prodigy”, having an extremely high IQ and musically based talent (Ericsson, Prietula and Cokely 2007, p. 3). What is not universally known about the development of his ability

Moreover, Mozart’s music in Amadeus is attributed to survey intricate relationship between God and humans. Through Salieri’s powerful jealousy of Mozart’s music and his intense blame on God, the movie proposes the issue of human’s incomplete belief in God and the question about the existence of God. Salieri, in the beginning part of the movie, is presented as the profoundly religious human. He believes that God grants his faithful wish to be a successful composer so he tries to devote to his God earnestly. However, after the appearance of Mozart in his life, Salieri starts to distrust God and commit blasphemy. Throughout the movie, Salieri’s strong covetousness of Mozart’s talent and his blame on God who only gives his gift not to his honest son but to an obscene child, Mozart, are

     Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is said to be the greatest genius in western music history. Wolfgang Amadeus was born in Salzburg, Austria January 27, 1756 his parents were Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria Pertl. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s father was a successful composer, violinist, and assistant concertmaster at the Salzburg court. The

He raced to finish it but in the end only completed a few movements and a sketchy outline of the rest of the piece. He died probably from poor health when he was just thirty five years old. The Requiem was completed by one of Mozart's pupils, Sussmayr.Mozart was apolitical. He was very classical. He appreciated Bach and had a large output: 49 symphonies and 18 operas.

One scene in particular lends itself to the comparison of Don Giovanni, Leporello, and The Commendator. Scene fifteen of Act two, places all three characters in close interaction with each other, making it easy to compare and find out how Mozart and his Librettist Lorenzo da Ponte

In his society, people loved his music and his talent. His performances were outstanding and everybody cherished him, even the emperor when heard about Mozart, he was invited to his Palace to perform his work and witness his Mozart’s talents. Since Mozart was about eight years old, his talent became visible with help from his father. His father was like his role model to him showing him the right path, what to do, how to do and when to do it right. Mozart started performing at the age eight, playing Piano as the highest level just like a person who has been playing piano over twenty-five years.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was probably the greatest genius in Western musical history. He was born in Salzberg, Austria on January 27, 1756. The son of Leopold Mozart and his wife Anna Maria Pertl. Leopold was a successful composer and violinist and assistant concertmaster at the Salzberg court.

This shows that he was genius. By doing all of this he fuels the jealousy that Salieri had over Mozart’s talent. Mozart had a strong memory, he could remember the all music and write it down, this capability of him is shown in the movie and in real life. At age of fourteen he visited Italy and heard Allegri’s Miserere, later that day he wrote it down entirely from memory (Clasic fm 2017). In the movie, Salieri was showing a high interest for Mozart’s work and he was paying to a girl to spy on Mozart.

The film Amadeus directed by Milos Forman in 1984 was a look in to the interesting and short life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart was considered a child prodigy and genius by possessing qualities such as: composing his first concerto at the age 4, first symphony by the age of seven, his first opera by twelve, being able to just hear a piece of music once and being able to play it back perfectly from memory, playing the piano with a blindfold on, or playing the piano upside-down and backward. The film was narrated by another composer, Antonio Salieri, who was portrayed has having a love/hate relationship with Mozart.