Summary Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
1756-1791
Mozart’s art is one of the highest peaks of the world musical culture. The work of the great Austrian composer reflected the advanced ideas of his era, inexhaustible faith in the triumph of light and justice. Mozart’s music is dominated by cheerful colors, clear, uncorrupted lyrics; At the same time, it contains many pages full of passion, spiritual confusion, drama.
The legacy left by the composer is striking in versatility and wealth. Truly inexhaustible range of themes and images he touched; Mozart owns 23 works for musical theater, 49 symphonies, more than 40 instrumental solo concerts with orchestra, sonatas for pianoforte, violins, a large number of different ensembles. In all these diverse genres, Mozart proved himself to be a bold reformer, enriching their content, renewing the expressive means of art. Classical harmony, clarity of expression, noble beauty combined with depth of content determine the enduring
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 in the Austrian city of Salzburg. He received his musical education under the guidance of his father, a violinist and conductor, an intelligent, educated person. The creative growth of Mozart was remarkable for its extraordinary intensity. At the age of six or seven, he became a European virtuoso, and a few years later he formed himself as a composer, confident in mastery. Multiple trips of a brilliant young man to Europe contributed to his close acquaintance with modern art culture.
Working in various areas of musical art, Mozart paid special attention to opera. The way of the opera composer, he began twelve years: in 1768 appeared “Imaginary simpleton” and “Bastien and Bastienna.” In the years he spent in Italy (1769-1771, 1771-1772), the scenes of Italian theaters were his operas Mithridates, King Pontus (1770) and Lucio Silla (1772). In 1775, the “Imaginary gardener” was staged in Munich, and the premiere of “Idomeneo” (1781) was also held there. These operas
The last decade of his life – the time of the highest creative heyday and at the same time years of brutal material need, which finally broke the composer’s strength. After breaking with the archbishop, Mozart moves to Vienna, where he sets up an oder “Abduction from the Seraglio” (1782), written in the tradition of the Singspiel. In this and especially in the subsequent glorified works – “The Wedding of Figaro” (1786) and “Don Giovanni” (1787) – the Mozart realism of characters and feelings was fully revealed. During the years of his stay in Vienna, the operas The Director of the Theater (1786), The So Comes Everything (1790), The Mercy of Titus (1791) and The Magic Flute (1791) were also created – a philosophical tale that affirms the victory of reason and light over prejudice and evil.
The last work of Mozart – a brilliant “Requiem” – remained unfinished. Work on him was interrupted by death, which took place on December 5, 1791 in Vienna.
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