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| | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Mozart wrote a number of piano pieces, in particular duets and duos, to play with her. | | | Mozart's study of these works led, first, to a number of works of his own imitating Baroque style, and later had a powerful influence on his personal musical style, as seen for instance in the fugal passages in Die Zauberflöte ("The Magic Flute") and the 41st Symphony. | | | Quite the contrary, Mozart was a studiously hard worker, and by his own admission his extensive knowledge and intellect about music developed out of many years' close study of the European musical tradition. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Mozart |
| | Mozart’s works were catalogued chronologically by Austrian music bibliographer Ludwig von Köchel, who published his catalog in 1862. | | | During the last years of his life Mozart was plagued at times by financial difficulties, as revealed in a series of letters he wrote to his fellow Freemason Michael Puchberg, in which he begged for loans. | | | A series of inspired piano concertos that Mozart composed for his own performance began with No. 14 in E-flat Major (K. 449) in 1784 and culminated in the premiere of No. 24 in C Minor (K. 491) in March 1786. |
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| | - Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 |
| | Mozart wrote four concertos for French horn, principally for the use of his friend, the horn-player Ignaz Leutgeb and a Sinfonia concertante for solo wind instruments, designed for performance by Mannheim friends in Paris. | | | As he lay dying Mozart was joined by his friends to sing through parts of a work that he left unfinished: this was his setting of the Requiem Mass, commissioned by an anonymous nobleman, who had intended to pass the work off as his own. | | | Mozart's compositions were catalogued in the 19th century by Köchel, and they are generally now distinguished by K. numbering from this catalogue. |
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| | SPECTRUM Biographies - Wolfgan Amadeus Mozart |
| | Mozart and his older sister Maria Anna "Nannerl" were the couple's only surviving children, and their musical education began at a very young age. | | | Although Archbishop Colloredo was a less generous employer, Mozart continued in his Salzburg post and worked diligently from 1775 to 1777. | | | In Paris, Mozart's mother fell ill and soon after the symphony's premiere, she died. |
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| | The Music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| | Mozart's initial success as a free-lance performing artist, composing nearly all of the music he played, eventually faded since the Viennese tired of his novelty, and their generous support of his work wore off. | | | Mozart was a master of counterpoint, fugue, and the other traditional compositional devices of his day; more than this, he was perhaps one of the greatest melody writers the world has ever known. | | | Although Mozart and his family could never be said to have lived in dire poverty, they were forced to move eleven times in the ten years they lived in Vienna, each time to less expensive lodgings. |
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http://www.carolinaclassical.com/articles/mozart.html
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| | Internet Public Library: Music History 102 |
| | Mozart is probably the only composer in history to have written undisputed masterworks in virtually every musical genre of his age. | | | He was idolized by such late nineteenth century composers as Richard Wagner and Peter Tchaikovsky; and his music came to influence the neo-classical compositions of Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev in the twentieth century. | | | The influence of Mozart on the composers that followed cannot be emphasized too strongly. |
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| | Mozart, his life and the magic of his operas |
| | Mozart's large output - more than 600 works - with a number of instrumental combinations, concertos and vocal works shows, that even as a child he possessed a thorough command of the technical resources of musical composition as well as an original imagination. | | | Mozart is ranked along with Verdi and Wagner as one of the three greatest of all opera composers. | | | This work uncompleted at Mozart's death proved to be his last musical effort. |
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| | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| | Mozart astonished his audiences with his precocious skills; he played to the French and English royal families, had his first music published and wrote his earliest symphonies. | | | In these years, too, he wrote six string quartets which he dedicated to the master of the form, Haydn: they are marked not only by their variety of expression but by their complex textures, conceived as four-part discourse, with the musical ideas linked to this freshly integrated treatment of the medium. | | | Haydn told Mozart's father that Mozart was 'the greatest composer known to me in person or by name; he has taste and, what is more, the greatest knowledge of composition'. |
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| | CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: W.A. Mozart Biography |
| | The piano of his concertos is the protagonist be it in either an opera buffa or seria, the slow movements of his string quartets are love arias and duets, and the last movements of his piano sonatas are the denouements of high comedies. | | | Mozart as a successful opera composer and piano virtuoso must have made a good bit of money at this time, yet he and Costanze could hold on to none of it and changed residencies eleven times in nine years. | | | Among the instrumental music, the 27 piano concertos (especially after no.9) which were written as personal vehicles for the composer, consistently contain Mozart's most sublime orchestral writing with particularly beautiful wind music in the mature concertos (No.21: Allegro, Andante; No.23: Allegro con spirito). |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| | His father, Leopold Mozart, assistant choir-master and court musician to the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, was one of the most distinguished musicians of his time. | | | Mozart was now in full maturity of his powers, creating with astonishing rapidity works which will remain classic for all time: operas, symphonies, quartets, concertos, etc., all of which increased his fame, but did not ameliorate his material condition. | | | In Bologna, they became acquainted with Padre Giambattista Martini (1706-1784), the most learned musician of his time. |
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| | What is The Mozart Effect? |
| | Mozart wrote more than six hundred major compositions during his lifetime, beginning at age five. | | | As recently as 2001, new studies in England use Mozart's music to study its effect on epilepsy. | | | Research with Mozart's music began in France in the late 1950s when Dr. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Mozart : A Life |
| | I'm on his side, as his book created a thought-provoking examination of a great figure whose art was a tonic for the fraught relationship he had with his father. | | | More time is spent trying to pigeonhole Mozart's relation with his father into a Freudian model than is discussing the musical culture of Viena, or for that matter Mozarts sources of creativity. | | | There is a great deal of psychological probing into the agonies of their relationship, much of it sensible; and Solomon paints an indelible portrait of Mozart's last years, begging for money, guilty about his deprived wife Constanze, resentful of being virtually cut out of his father's will, yet still heroically forging a new musical aesthetic. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060926929?v=glance
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| | Island of Freedom - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| | Later the Mozart children displayed (1763-66) their talents to audiences in Germany, in Paris, at court in Versailles, and in London (where Wolfgang wrote his first symphonies and was befriended by Johann Christian Bach, whose musical influence on Wolfgang was profound). | | | In his operas Mozart's uncanny psychological insight is unique in musical history. | | | In Paris the young Mozart published his first works, four sonatas for clavier with accompanying violin (1764). |
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http://www.island-of-freedom.com/MOZART.HTM
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| | Mozart |
| | Mozart finished the four-part vocal score, the instrumental bass, and the motivic portions of the instrumentation | | | In his later years, Mozart incorporates many musical elements and style from different countries into his works. | | | Mozart declined an opportunity to compose in London. |
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http://www.its.caltech.edu/~tan/Mozartreq/main.html
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| | Amadeus (1984) |
| | The importance lies not in the fact that Mozart is dying (though his departure from the movie, for me, was quite traumatic) but in seeing how Salieri must have more of Mozart's work; he hates this man and yet he recognizes the brilliance of his music, a brilliance he will never posses. | | | The film chooses to highlight the comparison of mediocrity versus genius; Mozart is obviously the better of the two composers, and Salieri can see his own mediocrity and recognize his inferiority to Mozart so well that he is driven insane. | | | I just love it, and not because of my fixation on Mozart, but because it is a beautifully made, completely moving work of art. |
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| | ArtsAlive.ca - Music : Great Composers |
| | The National Arts Centre Orchestra is pleased to share the incredible life, times and music of a universally loved composer. | | | Here he also gave piano lessons, conducted his own compositions, starred in his piano concertos as soloist, and became the talk of the town. | | | He delighted in playing duets at the keyboard with his older sister, Nannerl, and even wrote a concerto for two pianos for them to play together. |
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http://www.artsalive.ca/en/mus/greatcomposers/mozart/mozart.html
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| | Classical composer biographies |
| | This makes light of Mozart unduly however; letters of his describe how he found the composition of works such as his later quartets very hard.) | | | A prominent Romantic composer, (in)famous in his day for looking back to earlier musical styles (such as those of Beethoven, Mozart and Bach) rather than following the trend towards the styles of Wagner and Liszt. | | | In particular, I think his religious music exhibits a great deal of feeling, and transcends mere “twiddles”. |
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| | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| | Posthumous Portrait by Barbara Krafft, Salzburg, 1819, under the supervision of Maria Anna Walburga (``Nannerl '') Mozart (JPEG; 18 kB). | | | Mann, William: The Operas of Mozart Oxford University Press, 1977. | | | Osborne, Charles: The Complete Operas of Mozart Atheneum, 1978. |
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| | Essentials of Music - Composers |
| | And Mozart himself, who always felt that his talents were never adequately recognized, was often difficult. | | | But his career, which ended tragically with his death at age thirty-five, was a constant disappointment. | | | There seems to have been no genre in which he was not comfortable, and we can rightly point to his best work in any of them as the epitome of that genre. |
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| | Mozart and his sister Nannerl, also a formidable musical prodigy, quickly became the toast of Europe, performing before the courts of London, Paris, Brussels, Italy and Vienna, where the 6 year-old Mozart leapt into the lap of the Empress Maria Theresa. | | | Look for the feature article in the Sunday, August 21st edition of the Union Tribune Arts Section! | | | Johannes Chrisostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, on January 27, 1756. |
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http://www.mainlymozart.org
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| | A Society for the advancement of research about the life, works, historical context, and reception of Wolfgang Amadè Mozart, as well as the dissemination of information about study and performance of related music. | | | Copyright © 1996-2002 by Mozart Society of America. |
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| | Mozart Forum Home |
| | his free educational site is dedicated to the discussion of the music, persona and world of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. | | | As well, we shall explore overall the world of Classical-Era Music (1770-1827), encompassing the music, personalities and accomplishments of Mozart’s contemporaries. | | | The Founders, coming from all backgrounds and with different perspectives on the ever-fascinating subject of Mozart, have decided to pool their resources and talents to create and maintain such a website. |
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| | The Mozart Lover's Page |
| | Mozart lovers everywhere, this site is for you! | | | Not only will I extensively explore Mozart's beautiful music and his legacy, but offer other interesting factors as well: some contemporary issues involving Mozart, my own personal summaries and commentary on his most famous music, literature I've written in his honor, plus, a Mozart Society you can join! | | | Well, Mozart's Birthday is over, but you can still get a chance to see the Birthday Tribute I put up. |
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| | Web Quest Info |
| | Your Mission....As a time traveler, you are expected to gather information about the famous composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. | | | You have been chosen to travel through time. | | | You must prepare a packet of information that will be studied by our experts. |
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http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuests/mozart/Mozartquest.html
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| | Mozart's Musikalisches Würfelspiel |
| | During his life, Mozart wrote the measures and instructions for a musical composition dice game. | | | The music and table of rules for this game appear to have been published anonymously in 1787, and interestingly, the table of rules for this Minuet is identical to Mozart's. | | | The idea is to cut and paste pre-written measures of music together to create a Minuet. |
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| | BBC - Classical TV - Mozart |
| | Browse the schedule for regular broadcasts of Mozart's music | | | 3-part series which journeyed into Mozart's life and career. |
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| | Welcome to MozartEffect.com |
| | LONDON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Mozart started listening to music before he was born -- and by the age of four was already beginning to compose his own. | | | This remarkable story is for every parent with a child waiting to be awakened to language and communication. | | | Of course not every child exposed to music in the womb and in the first months of life will display such genius, but according to Don Campbell, musician, teacher and author of "The Mozart Effect", a little music early on can produce huge benefits. |
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| | mozart music notation software |
| | mozart allows you to type in music notation - as easily as entering text in a word processor - view it on the screen, hear it, edit it, and then print high quality music scores and individual parts for musicians. | | | Mozart the Music Processor™ is music notation software for computers running Microsoft Windows. | | | Mozart's in-built knowledge of music syntax lets you create scores and parts quickly and efficiently. |
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| | Mozart Connection-student page |
| | What have researchers found out about children who take music lessons and who are exposed to the music of Mozart? | | | Positive article from the Boston Globe newspaper about the many powerful effects of music. | | | Can music help your children do better in school? |
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| | Mozart's Place |
| | This web site is about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. | | | This site is not affiliated with Milos Forman, the Saul Zaentz company or Peter Shaffer. | | | Permission to use certain text or images may be granted by the webmistress if so requested. |
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| | Mozart's Coffee Roasters, specialty coffee, Austin, Texas. |
| | This Mozart’s favorite is a soaked in rum and espresso and topped with fresh whipped cream. | | | Mozart's Blend - Medium roast using Central American, South American, | | | Relax in our tranquil setting of timeless, rare beauty with friends from far and wide.People from all over the world have discovered the tranquil banks alongside Lake Austin at Mozart's Coffee Roasters and Bakery. |
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| | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Tutte le informazioni su Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart su Encyclopedia.it |
| | I coniugi Mozart avevano avuto in precedenza altri cinque figli, ma erano tutti morti in tenerissima età. | | | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Salisburgo 27 gennaio 1756 - Vienna 5 dicembre 1791) compositore che creò musica spesso di assoluta notorietà nei campi della musica classica, musica da camera e opera. | | | Anche molte altre persone che conobbero il piccolo Mozart rimasero sbalordite dalle sue capacità, lasciandone trepide testimonianze. |
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| | The Mozart Programming System |
| | Mozart is based on the Oz language, which supports declarative programming, object-oriented programming, constraint programming, and concurrency as part of a coherent whole. | | | Mozart is the fruit of an ongoing research collaboration by the Mozart Consortium. | | | The system is the result of a decade of research in programming language design and implementation, constraint-based inference, distributed computing, and human-computer interfaces. |
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| | Mozart: Orchestrating Your Business |
| | But my real life is such that I no longer have the necessary time to support and/or develop this project. | | | Mozart makes a system call, crypt(), in both the adduser.php and chgpass.php modules, which could cause incompatibility problems with other operating systems. | | | Mozart doesn't use frames, so you should be able to access it from your Palm Pilot or other such device. |
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| | GCTM: Mozart |
| | MOZART was developed at NCAR, the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, and NOAA/GFDL. | | | MOZART is a comprehensive global chemical transport model of atmospheric composition designed to simulate tropospheric chemical and transport processes. | | | Model for OZone And Related chemical Tracers (Mozart) |
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| | Mozart |
| | Most of the work on XL is now done on a native compiler (written in XL), which was moved to another site: XLR. | | | Mozart is a framework to create extensible development tools. | | | It is believed to be the first framework to fully enable concept programming. |
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| | Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Mozart |
| | Article on Mozart's Arrangement of Handel's Messiah by Teri Noel Towe | | | Amazon - UK - Germany - Canada - France - Japan - ArkivMusic | | | Use of text, images, or any other copyrightable material contained in these pages, without the written permission of the copyright holder, except as specified in the Copyright Notice, is strictly prohibited. |
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| | Mozart Home Page |
| | This page is an index site for those interested in finding Mozart information on the Web. | | | The index sites were collected using a variety of Internet search tools. |
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