NAME: Medsherley Jean-Bart
PERIOD: 08
DATE: 11/19/14
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Composer: W. A. Mozart
Birth Date: January 27, 1756 Location of Birth: Salzburg, Austria
Death Date: December 5, 1791 Location of Death: Vienna, Austria Cause of Death: Berlin newspaper to announce that he had been poisoned but studies have showed that he actually died from a strep infection
Style:
Keyboard
Opera
Chamber Music
Concerto
Orchestral
Symphony
Instrument:
Compositions (include year composed)(put in chronological order
1. 1761 Allegro for piano in C major (K. 1b)
2. 1761 Allegro for piano in F major (K. 1c) Keyboard
3. 1761 Andante for piano in C major (K. 1a)
4. 1761 Minuet for piano in F major, (K. 1d)
5. 1762 Allegro for piano in B flat major, K. 3
Special Fact:
He wrote his first opera, Mitridate Re di Ponto, in 1770 when he was only 14 years old.
He composed his first great mass, aged 12 – Misa Brevis in G