Wolfgang Mozart Research Paper

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the most important classical composers in history. By the age of four Wolfgang Mozart was playing the piano like a professional. He was writing his own music when he was five. He wrote over six hundred compositions. This essay will briefly outline the background of composer Wolfgang Mozart and then discuss an influence on him and a contribution he made to music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. His father Leopold Mozart, a violinist and composer married Anna Maria and they had seven children but five of their children died in childhood. The seventh child, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the fourth child, Maria Anna Wolburga Ignatia survived. Wolfgang Mozart was playing
the same piece of music as his sister when he was four and he wrote his own music when he was five. He wrote an opera and it was very successful when he was just fourteen. In 1782, Wolfgang Mozart married Constanze Weber and they had six children. As family members increased, his debts did too. His income was not balanced with expenses. Wolfgang Mozart died in Vienna, December 5, 1791 at the age of thirty five because of illness. He was buried the day after he died, during a storm so no one went to his funeral. After Wolfgang Mozart died, no one could find his grave because his grave had been unmarked and his body was unidentified. He was very poor when he died, his family had a lot of debts so his wife had no money to use for his funeral
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart did not have a lot of influences but a huge influence was his father.
When Mozart was young he used to attend the piano lessons that his father gave to his sister so he always wanted his father to teach him too. His father began to teach Mozart when he was four and after a short period of time, he started to see his son’s talent because Mozart was able to learn and play very complex pieces of music very quickly so his father decided to train him. He had a very unusual childhood, he could composed when he was just five years old. He had an extraordinary talent and probably better than his
sister.
Leopold was very proud of his son so when Wolfgang Mozart was 7, Leopold took him and his sister on a journey all the way through France, Germany, Switzerland, England and other countries to perform for three and a half years. They also held concerts in public and many people admired young Mozart because he played piano like a professional. Some people thought that because he could play completed pieces of music in his head, he was a genius. “Just like breathing, music obvious came naturally to him.” He could play piano, organ and violin. Mozart lived and travelled everywhere with his father. Mozart never went to school because he learnt everything from his father. His father was a friend, teacher and impresario to him. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s greatest contribution is to western music. He was considered the greatest of all opera composers. He wrote an opera in each style: Comic opera and Opera seria (serious opera). He wrote Idomeneo which was considered as the greatest opera seria that ever written. He also produced some of his greatest work in 1791, including the Magic Flute, the Clarinel Concerto and the Requiem. Opera was never be the same after 1791, the year that he died. He had a huge influence on the work of Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven knew a lot about Wolfgang Mozart’s work and used Mozart to be a model for his composition too. Wolfgang Mozart composed over six hundred works, including opera, wind ensembles, marches, ballet music and much more. Through his music, Mozart has made a huge impact in this world. His music was perfect so it was very hard to understand. Scientists have found some evidences that when children under the age of three listen to Mozart’s music, it can help to improve a child’s brain development. They also compared people who listened to Mozart’s music with people who did not. The result was people who were listened to Mozart’s music were likely to become smarter; this was called the Mozart effect. However, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was still one of the most powerful, talented and genius musical composers of his time, our time and our children’s time.
In conclusion, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a genius musician who had a greatest contribution to western music.
He played, conducted and composed music from his soul. He also left behind over six hundred of his works and many of them were masterpieces; this is why we still and always remember him for the greatest composer of all time.

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