Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : The Age Of Enlightenment

During the 18th century, many musical elements were introduced. Sonata form was created around this time and Joseph Haydn further developed it2. Mozart built on Haydn’s ideas and used them in his own works2. Most of the elements

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

Classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart in 1756 in Salzburg, Austria (then the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation). Mozart showed promise in music from an early age, prompting his father to assume the role as his instructor. His father described his son as a gift from God, and Leopold nurtured Wolfgang’s talents as such. Mozart would eventually travel throughout Europe with his musical family; however, it was in Salzburg that he would compose three piano sonatas in 1783. These pieces were most likely composed for Mozart’s pupils in Vienna, who were a significant source of income for him at the time. This paper

Romantic 
Dates: 1800-1900
 
1.  What was going on historically during this era?  What was life like? Profound Political and Social changes going on; many moving into cities for work. Renewed interested in expressing emotion through music. 
2.  Does romantic music continue to use the same forms used in the classical era? No
3.  Explain the Individuality of style. Composers wanted their music to be uniquely identifiable to them. They worked hard on self-expression.
4.  What are the expressive aims and subjects of the pieces?  How is this different than in the classical era? Flamboyance, Intimacy, Unpredictability, Melancholy, Rapture, Longing etc..., Classical Era did not experiment with so many aims.
5.  What is musical nationalism?

     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.

After the Renaissance and the Baroque era, the Classical era soon followed at around the 1720-1820's. During these times in Europe, there were many non musical developments, ideas of the enlightenment, political issues, scientific discoveries and the

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 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.

Mozart Shaped classical music creating symphonies, sonata, strings of opera and concertos. He had several opportunities to work with different musical genres. He became fascinated with George Fredric Handel and John Sebastian and it resulted in several compositions, such as Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) and symphony 41. He had produced a series of church works including coronation mass In Salzburg in 1779. While in Vienna, Mozart was writing music for publication, taking on pupils, and playing in several concerts.

The Classical Age of music lasted from 1750 to 1820. "The middle of the eighteenth century witnessed perhaps the most comprehensive change that has ever taken place in the history of Western music.” This quote, stated by F.E. Kirby, shows how revolutionary the classical music was at the time. This change in music history led to some of the most revolutionary music in history. This quote claims that classical music was a large impact on the rest of the music in music history.

Mozart matched his music to mock the composers at the time. While Bach and Handel had an impact on Mozart’s music they were becoming less relevant. His music became more full of content and character as more music made in the same fashion showed more. As his music changed Mozart met Joseph Haden which then became the greatest composer, he ever met. Mozart wrote music to mocked Josephs ideas but not his style.

Every composer has their own style, which is specific to their own era. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, being a very idiosyncratic individual, was able to make a music and craft a style, that gave him a very distinct place in history. Mozart was a very versatile composer, and explored many different types of genre, while also composing different type of eras of music, however he mainly composed his pieces in classical style. Mozart, a very world renowned composer, was very prodigious from when he was a toddler. His accomplishments are known across the music world, as well as being one of the most talented individuals of all time.

Throughout the movie Amadeus, Mozart represented the ideas of the Enlightenment period. Mozart was able to create new music techniques that differed from

As the dawn of the 19th century approached, culture, art, expression, and society were evolving at extraordinary rates. The people were starving for a new revolutionary leap in musical expression with the age of Classical Period becoming an item of the past. With this ravenousness desire for new music came the development and creation of what is known as the Romantic Period from approximately 1810-1900. This new epoch established generations of new music advancement as composers, performers, and artists setout to create a new legacy of music development with the ideas of emotion, expression, and enlightenment through the conception of beautiful art.

The Classical Period had lasted from around 1750 -- 1820, and was itself a revolt against the previous Baroque era. The arts moved away from the heavily ornamented styles of the Baroque to a cleaner, uncluttered style, thought to be reminiscent of Ancient Greece, and many people interested in music were now the aristocracy rather than the church or monarchy. The social upheavals of the latter part of this period challenged these ideas, and the Age of Reason became the age of the individual, and the beginnings of Romanticism, with its non-rational and disordered reasoning, became predominant.