is a fine mixture of technical dexterity and beautiful melodies. His music is full of counterpoint and he was an expert at the fugue. This is why his music is so popular today and why the Classical composers had great interest in him. Mozart(b.1756 d.1791) From the very beginning of his life in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a master of music. His father, Leopold Mozart, sacrificed his own career as a respected composer and theorist so he could concentrate on fostering his prodigy sons talents. He taught Mozart the violin, piano and musical theory, all of which Mozart excelled at. At age four, Mozart was writing piano concertos and he completed his first opera, Batien and Bastienne when he was eleven. Mozart spent most of his childhood touring Europe with his sister and he got his first job at age thirteen for the Archbishop of Salzburg. He worked here for twelve years until the archbishop dismissed him because he was irked by Mozarts constant angling for a better job. Mozart moved to Vienna, the musical capital of the world at the time. He had been successful there as a child prodigy but as an adult had difficulty finding work because royal commissions were becoming more and more scarce. It was in Vienna that Mozart met Haydn, who took Mozart under his wing and nurtured Mozart' talents like a second father. To make a living, Mozart wrote operas which were reaching the height of their popularity. Musical ideas sprang from Mozarts mind. His only task in composing was actually writing the music down on paper. Around this time he fell in love with a woman called Aloysia Weber. He asked her to marry him but she declined, and so he married her sister Constanze instead. For their wedding, Mozart wrote his great C-minor Mass. Mozart has more success as a composer when he visited Prague. He was commissioned to write several operas and he enjoyed a successful career. Mozart was convinced while he was writing his Requiem commissio...
