Some of the operas composed by Mozart around the 1770s include Mitridate, re di Ponto (1770) and Ascanio in Alba (1771), amongst others like Lucio Silla (1772). It is worth noting that all this time, he had been composing new pieces quite often, given however much he knew of music then. Along the way, Mozart met composers and famous music icons like Josef Mysliveček and Giovanni Martini, that later paid off with a fellowship in the well-renowned Accademia Filarmonica. These trips took him to places like the courts of Munich, London, Paris and other royal abodes of the time. Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC.Belonging to a family of music, Wolfgang Mozart would often travel around Europe with his siblings and father in his early years.
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Here, writes Elena Abend, we find him “extending his musical themes compared to his earlier compositions.” And yet the music “almost always has a playfulness about it.” It’s a quality that never left Mozart’s work, excluding the awesome Requiem, of course, but then this final masterwork was completed by other composers, none of them with Mozart’s lightness of spirit, which we can trace all the way back to that first piece, “a courtly little composition.” Writes Abend, “gracefulness is essential in performing the piece.” Several of those earlier pieces come from the so-called London Notebook, a sketchbook kept during Mozart’s time in England between 1764-65. Nonetheless, we have dozens of Mozart’s compositions throughout his childhood and teenage years. In addition to Mozart’s earliest pieces, it may also contain music composed by him at 7 or 8 years old-more extensive works that might, says Mozarteum researcher Ulrich Leisinger, bridge the short, simple first pieces and his first major compositions. For sadly obvious reasons, the elder Mozart did not continue to perform, and the notebook named for her does not contain any of her compositions, only Leopold’s exercises for the children and her brother’s first original work. Leopold, Kapellmeister of the Salzburg court orchestra, recognized not only Wolfgang’s musical talents, but also those of Nannerl, and he devoted his time to overseeing both his children’s training. Leopold Mozart-the driving stage-parental force, as we know, behind Wolfgang’s childhood career as a touring marvel-notated these first attempts, crediting them to “Wolfgangerl,” in what is known as the Nannerl Notebook, from the nickname of Mozart’s older sister, Maria Anna. At the Morgan Library’s site you can also see a scanned manuscript image of four of those compositions, written in Mozart’s father’s hand. He composed several short pieces the following year, and you can hear them all performed above.
“His first efforts at composition began when he was only four years old.” Not only did he play with unbelievable skill for “emperors and empresses in the courts of Europe,” but “by the time he was six he had composed dozens of remarkable pieces for the keyboard as well as for other instruments,” notes Willard Palmer in an introduction to Mozart’s most popular works. While those feverish scenes of Requiem’s composition in Forman’s film may be tenuously attached to the truth, the stories of Mozart the preschool and boyhood genius are well attested.
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