My Dearest Father - Brossura

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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ISBN 10: 0141397624 ISBN 13: 9780141397627

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2015

Riassunto

'They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me. And so they did. I gave a concert.'

A selection of personal correspondence between Mozart and his most important mentor and supporter, his father.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Mozart's work available in Penguin Classics is Mozart: A Life In Letters.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Mozart's work available in Penguin Classics is Mozart: A Life In Letters.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death. The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized. He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence on subsequent Western art music is profound; Ludwig van Beethoven composed his own early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0141397624
• ISBN 13: 9780141397627
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 64