Here is MANDATORY book for anyone wishing to understand who was MOZART. From The child prodigy born in Salzburg, which was at the time the capital of a German ecclesiastical principality, he is the son of a German composer Leopold Mozart Wolfgang is the seventh child of the couple. Three children died in infancy before the birth of his sister Maria Anna (nicknamed "Nannerl"), and two others are still dead between the birth of the eldest sister and his own. He was baptized Joannes Chrysost [omus] Wolfgangus Theophilus. Theophilus means "beloved of the gods" has German equivalents (Gottlieb), Italian (Amedeo) and Latin (Amadeus. Then on his travels with his father first in Munich and then to Vienna, Augsburg, Mannheim, Frankfurt, Brussels, Paris, London, The Hague, Amsterdam, Dijon, Lyon, Geneva, Lausanne. His exhibitions impress listeners. But most important is that this book allows us to apprehend the man through his work Mozart was the first to take its independence. Freed from the authority of his father and his employer, he can compose freely Then Mozart met the youngest daughter of Mrs. Weber, Constanze, and decides to marry without waiting for the written consent of her father. The marriage was celebrated August 4, 1782 ,. Soon after, Baron von Svieten he discovered two completely unknown composers at that time, Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Händel. Mozart was fascinated by the art of Bach's counterpoint, which directly influences his Great Mass in C minor KV.427. The same year, he began a series of six quartets dedicated to his friend Joseph Haydn, which ends in 1785. In 1784 Mozart enters Freemasonry, In 1786, Mozart met the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, This convinces the Emperor to allow the creation of an opera based on The Marriage of Figaro by Beaumarchais, while the Emperor forbade the room. Mozart set to music a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, and the first of Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) takes place on 1 May 1786 in Vienna. Its success does not prevent the rapid withdrawal of the poster. Mozart leaves then to Prague where Le nozze is a phenomenal success. In tribute to this city, he composed the Symphony No. 38 in D major. He then receives the Prague theater manager controlling a opera Mozart is once again appeal to Lorenzo da Ponte to create the libretto of Don Giovanni. On May 28, 1787, his father Leopold died. This death upsets Mozart. His last work: the Requiem, will remain incomplete: Mozart died December 5, 1791 a little before one o'clock Must-have book.
