a pauper’s grave”(Levey). The unfinished Requiem, which Mozart imagined was for himself, is numbered K.626. “His body was gone, but his magnificent music-symphonies, opera, duos, trios, quartet, violon concertos, piano concertos, vocal and choral works praising God, happiness, and all of life-lives forever”(Hutchings 67) . His symphonic compositions culminate in the “Jupiter” written in 1788 when Mozart was 32. His earlier symphonies seem to give greatest importance to the first movement. In the “Jupiter” Mozart build toward the finale with passages in a fugal style as the grand climax after the minuet (3rd Movement) Composer: W.A. Mozart Title: Jupiter Symphony Key: C Meter: In threes Form: A B A (Minuet and Trio)The world that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart entered unceremoniously in 1756 was awash in change. Historians refer to this era as the Age of Enlightenment. Indeed, Mozart marks the beginning of the Western fascination with the child prodigy. The idealization of Mozart’s genius was complete by the end of the nineteenth century. Between 1762 and 1766, the Mozarts appeared at almost every major court in Europe. Wolfgang dazzled audiences with his ability to read difficult music atsight and to improvise Four of his operas—The Abduction from the Seraglio(1782), The Marriage of Figaro(1786), Don Giovanni(1787), and Cos fan tutte(1790) —were premiered or performed in the prestigious Burgtheater. Then Mozart met Haydn; we do not know the occasion on which Mozart first encountered Joseph Haydn. In Haydn, he not only found a composer whose achievements were on a level with his own, but a warm and sympathetic friend in whom he could confide. In the autumn of 1791, Mozart’s health became progressively worse. He died on December 5, 1791, and was buried in a pauper’s grave. BibliographyGoes, Albert. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. New York: Harper, 1979Hutchings, Arthur Mozart...
