Mad for Mozart
| Wolfgang Mozart is born. | Mozart composed his first piece of music (at age five!). | Mozart and his sister Maria fell dangerously ill with typhoid fever. | Mozart and his father went to Italy and astonished everyone by writing down from memory a famous choral piece-Allegri's Miserere-which he had heard only once. | He composed his first original piano concerto. | Mozart's mother dies suddenly! | Mozart married Constanze Weber. | Mozart dies at the tender age of 35. |
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Title: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Author: Wendy Thompson
Publisher: Penguin Group
Date: 1990
Number Of Pages: 48
Summary: Mozart was a very famous composer, he wrote 600 pieces in his short lifetime including
The Magic Flute.
By the time he was seven, he could compose music as he played it, without having to write
it down first. He was an expert at this improvisation on the keyboard in all sorts of
styles, could play with keys hidden under a cloth, sight-read anything he was given, and
he had taught himself the violin. He also had "perfect pitch"- which meant he
could sing any note without having to hear it first; and he once astonished a family
friend by remembering that there was a slight but noticeable difference in the two violins
even though he hadn't heard the friend's fiddle in weeks!
His father had a big influence on him. Leopold Mozart was a very talented musician and he was somewhat well known.They had seven children altogether but only one was alive when Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart was born four and a half years later. Nannerl quickly showed she was very talented, and her brother taught himself some of Nanerel's pieces and he too showed he was very talented. Their father thought the world should know that he had a guineas on his hands. Their father saw nothing wrong in using Mozart and Nannerl to make money. He took them to Europe and England to play for all the Kings and Queens.