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Mozart Festival In Schönbrunn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoires. Mozart is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with his music admired for its "melodic beauty, its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture". Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. At age five, he was already competent on keyboard and violin, had begun to compose, and performed before European royalty. His father Leopold Mozart took him on a grand tour of Europe and then three trips to Italy. At 17, he was a musician at the Salzburg c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of The Mozart Family
''Portrait of the Mozart Family'' is an oil painting of four members of the Mozart family created between late 1780 and early 1781 and traditionally attributed to Johann Nepomuk della Croce. The painting depicts in the foreground the siblings Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus and Maria Anna Mozart, Maria Anna "Marianne" Mozart together playing a fortepiano, and their father Leopold Mozart, Leopold holding a violin. In the background, the recently deceased mother Anna Maria Mozart, Anna Maria is depicted in a framed portrait alongside a sculpture of Apollo playing a lyre. The painting was considered by Marianne to have the most authentic portrait of her brother and has inspired further depictions of the artist. It is currently kept in the Tanzmeisterhaus Salzburg, Tanzmeisterhaus museum in Salzburg, Austria. Commission The Mozarts commissioned the family portrait during the summer or autumn of 1780 and sittings were concluded by the end of the same year. Wolfgang Amadeus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
