| Series |
Great musicians series
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| Contents |
A birthday party ; Wolfgang and the canary's song ; His dedication to music ; His promise to his father ; Leopold Mozart ; His life's devotion -- Wolfgang's childhood ; Early compositions, and performance ; His wonderful ear ; Sensitiveness ; His father's influence -- Salzburg and the Seven Years' War ; Mozart family visit Vienna ; Social triumphs ; Wolfgang at the palace ; Proposes to Marie Antoinette ; He falls ill ; Family return home -- Leopold's grand tour ; His abilities as a showman ; Visit to Paris ; Family at Versailles ; Wolfgang and La Pompadour ; Leopold criticizes French social manners ; Leaves for England -- Visit to London ; Music at the court ; Public conerts ; Wolfgang's first symphonies ; Leopold's illness ; Mr. Barrington tests Wolfgang's powers ; Visit to Holland ; The children's illness -- Return to Salzburg ; Wolfgang's oratorio ; Vienna again ; La Finta Semplice ; Performance at Salzburg ; Wolfgang appointed Konzertmeister -- Tour in Italy ; Padre Martini ; Wolfgang's exploit in Sistine Chapel ; Mitridate, Ascanio in Alba, Lucio Silla, wirtten for Milan theatre -- New Archbishop at Salzburg ; Wolfgang's three years of hard work ; Resigns appointment ; Goes on tour with his mother ; Munich ; Augsburg ; Mannheim ; Paris ; Frau Mozart dies ; Wolfgang re-enters Archbishop's service ; Important results of the tour -- Idomeneo at Munich ; Mozart goes to Vienna in the archbishop's train ; Revolts and leaves his service -- Mozart's life in Vienna ; His friends ; Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail ; Entfuhrung aus dem Auge Gottes ; Marriage with Constanze Weber ; Visits Salzburg with his wife ; Leopold's return visit to Vienna ; His death -- The last ten years ; Mozart's creative activity ; His method of composition ; Friendship with Haydn -- Italian opera ; Mozart and Da Ponte ; Figaro ; Don Giovanni ; Cosi fan tutte -- Financial troubles ; Three great symphonies ; Visit to King of Prussia in Berlin ; Leipzig ; Falling off in productive power -- Concert tour in German towns ; The last year ; Die Zauberflote ; Commission to compose Requiem ; La Clemenza di Tito ; Illness ; Death ; Requiem left unfinished. |
| Abstract |
This compact and handy biography gives a rounded picture of Mozart from his child prodigy days, when he was exploited all over Europe by an ambitious father, to his premature death from typhus. His meteoric successes were always followed by days of dire poverty, but always there continued his prodigious and brilliant work for the music lovers of all time. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (page 122) and index. |
| LCCN | 49009937 |
