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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Haydn and MozartIn 1773, a seventeen-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visited Vienna and wrote six string quartets numbered K. 168 through 173.
- Beethoven and MozartBeethoven and Mozart never definitively shared a room, yet one composer's shadow fell so completely over the other that Beethoven once stopped mid-sketch to…
- Tonkünstler-SocietätFlorian Gassmann established the Tonkünstler-Societät in 1771. The organization bore a long German name meaning Society of Viennese Musicians for the Support…
- Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart was four years old when his father began teaching him minuets at the clavier, treating it as a game.
- Mozart and FreemasonryMozart and Freemasonry is a story that begins with a knock at a door. On the 14th of December 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was admitted as an apprentice to…
- Mozart's birthplaceThe structure at No. 9 Getreidegasse in Salzburg rose from the earth during the 12th century. It stood on ground that once belonged to a garden held by…
- Mozart's Berlin journeyMozart's Berlin journey began on the morning of the 8th of April, 1789, when the composer climbed into a carriage in Vienna beside Prince Karl Lichnowsky, an…
- Versuch einer gründlichen ViolinschuleVersuch einer gründlichen Violinschule, Leopold Mozart's textbook on violin playing, arrived in 1756 carrying a quiet argument about what music really…
- International Mozarteum FoundationThe International Mozarteum Foundation keeps watch over Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from a building on Schwarzstrasse in Salzburg, Austria.
- Mozart family grand tourThe Mozart family grand tour was a journey through western Europe that lasted from 1763 to 1766, undertaken by Leopold Mozart, his wife Anna Maria, and their…
- Mozart's starlingMozart's starling entered the composer's life on the 27th of May 1784, recorded in his expense book with a purchase price of 34 Kreuzer.
- Tanzmeisterhaus SalzburgThe Tanzmeisterhaus first appeared in written records during the year 1617. This building stood on a square now known as Makartplatz, though it was called…
- Mozart and danceMozart and dance are inseparable, not just because Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote roughly 200 dances that survive to this day, but because he loved dancing…
- Mozart and scatologyMozart and scatology is a subject that stops most people short. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the composer of extraordinary elegance, wrote letters containing…
- Mozart in ItalyMozart in Italy is the story of a thirteen-year-old boy who walked into one of the world's most demanding musical arenas and walked out a commissioned opera…
- Death of Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at his home in Vienna on the 5th of December 1791, at 12:55 in the morning. He was thirty-five years old.
- Mozart and smallpoxIn October 1767, an 11-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began to lose his sight. He was lying in a bed in the northern Moravian city of Olmütz, his cheeks…
- Mozarthaus ViennaMozarthaus Vienna sits at Domgasse 5, tucked into Vienna's Old Town within walking distance of St. Stephen's Cathedral. It is the only surviving apartment…