After attending the concert‚ the piece of work I would like to talk in most detail about was "Overture to the Magic Flute" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Mozart was a child prodigy‚ was able to play the piano at 4 and composing his own music at 5. As Professor Chapman stated‚ "When he was older‚ he could just write music while talking to friends without testing it. He was able to hear the piece entirely in his head." The piece being focused on was an opera he composed‚ and not just any
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The Duet Papagena/Papageno is a duet from Act 1 in the Opera Magic Flute that was written by W.A. Mozart in 1791. It starts in a 2/4 time sang allegretto. It starts with an ostinato ‘pa pa pa’ by the two voices while the orchestra blends in harmony. Staccato is used to give it a joyful‚ jumpy and light feel to the music. The instruments that have been employed have bright timbres and include violins and oboe; there is also prominent use of the panpipe which makes the piece quite expressive. The voices
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Something miraculous hovers above the music of Mozart. His elegant writing and his rich instrumental colors sound effortless. This deceptive simplicity is the secret of his art. Mozart was born in Salzburg‚ Austria‚ the son of Leopold Mozart‚ an esteemed composer-violinist at the court of the Archbishop of Salzburg. The most extraordinarily gifted child in the history of music‚ he started to compose before he was five‚ and‚ with his talented sister Nannerl
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William Suitt 9th grade band Final Essay: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 6/18/13 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27th‚ 1756; in Salzburg Austria. Born with the full name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart‚ he quickly shortened it to Wolfgang Mozart by his early teenage years. His father‚ Leopold Mozart‚ was the assistant concert master in the Salzburg royal court. While his mother‚ Anna Maria Pertl‚ was born into a family of
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born January 27‚ 1756 as the seventh child of a musical family. Mozart’s mother and father’s names were Anna Maria and Leopold. Leopold was a musician with ambition while Anna Maria has a good sense of humor to balance him out. They had seven children‚ but only 2 lived beyond infancy (Wolfgang and his older sister Maria Anna). He was born in Salzburg‚ or modern day Austria. Mozart’s father was a successful violinist and renowned composer of the
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and Mozart: Setting the Record Straight By A. Peter Brown "For the respect his works have commanded of musicians‚ and the popularity they have enjoyed among wider audiences‚ he is probably the most admired composer in the history of Western music." With this appraisal the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians‚ published in 1980‚ begins its magisterial article on Beethoven. More than a decade later one might not apply this statement to the Teutonic Goliath but to the David of Mozart. Not
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The Magic Flute Review Kristyn Davis Dr. Eubanks November 28‚ 2011 Liberal Arts “Art is one way whereby man seeks to understand the world.”. This is a quote from Oscar Brockett’s book‚ The Essential Theater. Over the weekend the Ouachita Baptist University: School of Fine Arts‚ division of music put on an opera entitled The Magic Flute. Originally composed by Mozart‚ the students in the production did an excellent job of bringing his composition to life. Going into the opera‚ my expectations
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choose Flute as my favorite instrument. But unfortunately it is nowhere mentioned that who actually discover Flute‚ but we have lot more information about the history of flute. Thousands of years ago it was found in the cave in Northern France with unknown number of holes. It was carved with bones. Those flutes were used during the hunting and magic rituals. As mentioned on the internet that the first flute which can be hold sideways was created in China. But before that Egyptians had flute. Though
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Analysis of W. A. Mozart’s Piano Sonata in A Major‚ K. 331: First Movement 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
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The joy of leaving Salzburg forVienna seems to have been musically inspiring‚ and the next few years wereprolific‚ not least in the composition of piano concertos: Mozart wrote 12between 1784 and 1786. The influence of J C Bach on Mozartwas significant. The two had met in London in 1764‚ when Mozart was still aboy. In 1772‚ Mozart created his first three piano concertos by rearrangingthree of J C Bach’s sonatas. Beyond the concerto structure‚ the detail ofMozart’s music suggests Bach’s influence
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