Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart travelled across Europe as a child prodigy and in 1781 settled in Vienna as a freelance musician. He mastered every genre of his time, but it was above all in opera that he brought characters to life musically. In Don Giovanni from 1787, at the end the statue of the murdered Commendatore comes to fetch the seducer, with the menacing chords from the overture. He died in 1791 at the age of thirty-five and left his Requiem unfinished.

Listening

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  Don Giovanni: Don Giovanni, a cenar teco (Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini) · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1787
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  Symfonie nr. 40: I. Molto allegro (Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Charles Mackerras) · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1788
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  Die Zauberflöte: Der Hölle Rache (Sabine Devieilhe, Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon) · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1791
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  Symfonie nr. 40: Molto allegro (Concertgebouworkest, Nikolaus Harnoncourt) · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1788

Mentioned in other articles

• Viennese Classicism GenreJoseph Haydn, in the service of the Esterházy family, developed the symphony and the string quartet; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart came to Vienna in 1781 and Ludwig van Beethoven in 1792.

See also

• Viennese Classicism
• Joseph Haydn
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Georg Friedrich Händel
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Franz Schubert
• Gioachino Rossini
• Frédéric Chopin
• Pjotr Iljitsj Tsjaikovski
• Maurice Ravel