Music 203-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Flashcards
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Date of birth/death
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born: 1-27-1756 in Salzburg died: 12-5-1791 in Vienna
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Mozart's travels: 1762
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Munich and Vienna
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Mozart's travels: 1763-1766
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Munich, Augsburg, Frankfurt, Cologne, Brussels, Paris
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Mozart's travels: 1764
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London
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Mozart's travels: 1765
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The Hague
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Mozart's travels: 1766
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Amsterdam, Paris, Dijon, Lyon, Genf, Bern, Zurich
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Mozart's travels: 1767
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Vienna, OlmĂĽtz
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Mozart's travels: 1769/71
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Italy (first trip): Milan, Bologna, Rome, Naples
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Mozart's travels: 1771
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Italy (second trip): Verona, Venice, Milan, Rome
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Mozart's travels: 1772-73
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Italy (third trip): Milan
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Mozart's travels: 1773
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Vienna
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Mozart's travels: 1774
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Munich
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Mozart's travels: 1777-79
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Augsburg, Mannheim
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Mozart's travels: 1778
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Paris
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Mozart's travels: 1779
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Paris, Salzburg
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Mozart's travels: 1780
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Munich
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Mozart's travels: 1781
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Vienna (to stay for good)
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Mozart's travels: 1787
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Prague (2x)
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Mozart's travels: 1789
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Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin
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Mozart's travels: 1790
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Frankfurt
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Mozart's travels: 1791
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Prague
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: Die Schuldigkeit des Ersten Gebots
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K. 35 (1767 Salzburg) Oratorio (German, only part 1 by W.A. Mozart)
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: Apollo et HycinthusK.
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K. 38 (1767 Salzburg) Intermedium (latin)
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: Bastien und Bastienne
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K.50 (1768 Vienna) Singspiel (German)
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: La finta semplice
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K. 51 (1769) Salzburg Opera seria (Italian)
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: Mitridate, Re di Ponto
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K. 87 (1770 Milan) Opera Seria (Italian)
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: Ascanio in Alba
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K. 111 (1771 Milan) Opera Seria (Italian)
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: Betulia liberata
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K. 118 (1771 Salzburg) Azione sacra (Italian) text: Metastasio
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: Il sogno di Scipione
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K. 126 (1772 Salzburg) Azione sacra (Italian), Text: Metastasio
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: Lucio Silla
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K. 135 (1772 MIlan) Opera seria (Italian)
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: La finta giadiniera
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K. 196 (1775 Munich, 1780 Salzburg) Comic opera (Italian + German version)
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: Zaide
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K. 344 (1781) FRAGMENT Singspiel (German)
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: Idomeneo
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K. 366 (1781 Munich) Opera seria (Italian)
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: Die EntfĂĽhrung aus dem Serail
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K. 384 (1782 Vienna) Singspiel (German)
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: L'oca del Cairo
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K. 422 (1783) FRAGMENT Dramma giocoso (Italian)
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: Der Schauspieldirektor
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K. 486 (1786 Vienna, Schönnbrunn) Comic opera in one act (German)
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: Le nozze die Figaro
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K. 492 (1786 Vienna) Comic opera (Italian), Text: Lorenzo Da Ponte after Beaumarchais
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: Don Giovanni
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K. 527 (1787 Prague) Dramma giocoso (Italian), Text: Lorenzo Da Ponte
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: Cosi fan tutte
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K. 588 (1790 Vienna) Comic opera (Italian) Text: Lorenzo Da Ponte
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: La Clemenza di Tito
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K. 621 (1791 Prague) Opera Seria (Italian), Text: Metastasio
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: Die Zauberflöte
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K. 620 (1791 Vienna) Great opera in two acts. (German) Text: Emanuel Schikaneder
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: Die EntfĂĽhrung aus der Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio=Harem) 1782 Characters
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Belmonte: Spanish nobleman (T) Constanze: his English fiancee (S) Blonde (Blondchen): her English maid (S) Pedrillo: Belmonte's servant and Blonde's boyfriend (T) Bassa Selim: owner of the seraglio (speaking role) Osmin: harem overseer (B)
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: Le nozze di Figaro (Marriage of Figaro) 1786. Characters
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Counta Almaviva (Bari.) Countess Almaviva (Rosina) (S) Figaro: the Count's valet=servant (Bari.) Susanna: Countess's maid and Figaro's bride (S) Cherubino: young page in love with all the females in the story (Mezzo-S) Doctor Bartolo: The Countess's former guardian (B) Marcellina: The countess's former governess (Mezzo-s.) don basilio: music teacher the gardener (B) Barbarina: gardener's daughter (S)
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: Don GIovanni 1787 characters
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Don Giovanni: spanish nobleman (Bari.) Leporello: his servant (Bari.) Il Commendatore: spanish nobleman and officer (B) donna anna: his daughter (S) don ottavio: donna anna's fiancee (T) donna elvira: 1 of don giovanni's former mistresses (S) zerlina: country girl on her wedding day (S) masetto: her bridegroom (B)
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cosi fan tutte 1790 characters
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fiordiligi (S) dorabella, her sister (mezzo-s.) guglielmo, dorabella's finacee (bari.) ferrando: fiordiligi's fiancee (T) don alfonso: eldery friend of theirs (Bari.) despina: sisters' maid (S)
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Mozart's Compositions for the Stage: Die Zauberflöte (Magic Flute) 1791
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tamino: oriental prince the queen of the night (high S) pamina: kidnapped daughter (S) papageno: her bird catcher (bari.) papagena: his girlfriend-to-be (S) three ladies working for the queen (SSA), 3 boys (SSA) sarastro, high priest of isis and osiris (B) monostatos, moor, working for sarastro (T) A speaker (Bari.) and other high priests (male choir)
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Wolfgang's family
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father: leopold mother: Maria Anna sister: Nannerl all spoke german and french
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Wolfgang's age when his father noticed his talent
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3, when he responded to his sister's music lessons by picking out tunes on the harpsichord
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Wolfgang's public debut
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court of Munich, Jan. 1762, 6 years old. Played for Empress Maria Theresa in Vienna.
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The year Leopold, Wolfgang, and Nannerl set on a 3 year tour
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1763.
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Wolfgang's 3 visits to Italy
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started in 1769, picked up Italian style got honor of "papal Order of the Golden Spur" (given after writing down from memory after two hearings Allegri's "Miserere" that was only intended for the Vatican) pope knighted him (Wolfgang then signed, occasionally, "Chevalier Mozart")
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The piece Wolfgang wrote two days before its premiere
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Don Giovanni
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the composer Wolfgang became close to in London 1764
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Johann Christian Bach
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Leopold's post in Salzburg 1771
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music director to prince-archbishop (this is when Hieronymus von Colloredo replaced him after his death)
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Mozart's career decision 1777
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Left salzburg position of writing church music, ended up in Paris with his sick mother
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Tragedy of 1778-79
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Wolfgang's mother died in 78, headed back depressed to Salzburg in 79
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Mannheim 1779
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stayed with the Weber family, courted and wrote arias for Alosia (prettiest and most talented of the 4) and Josefa (Josefa created the role of the Queen of the Night) Alosia rejected Mozart
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Wolfgang's 2nd job in Salzburg
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court and cathedral organist
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Wolfgang's first opera 1780
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elector of Munich had Wolfgang write an opera (Idomeneo) [1st mature stage work] considered best opera seria his favorite singer was male alto dal Prato nicknamed "mio molto amato castrato dal Prato"
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Mozart's "liberating fiasco"1781
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his boss the archbishop got mad at him in vienna so wolfgang quit
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Wolfgang and Constanze's marriage in August 1782
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just before marriage he composed The Abduction from the Seraglio, comic opera 2 noble ladies sold by pirates to a Turkish pasha formed as a singspiel, which added to popularity
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Antonio Salieri
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head of the Vienna Opera, favorite composer of Emperor Joseph II "nemesis of mozart", but later considered his friend
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Emperor Joseph II's court
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considered "brilliant". had poet Lorenzo da Ponte: "half hack/half genius", helped wolfgang by having the emperor lift the ban of "Figaro"
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Wolfgang's Figaro-plot
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comedy Figaro and Susanna battle Count Almaviva although comedic, it raged at current social justice issues
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Mozart's and da Ponte's collaborations
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3 operas Figaro written in 6 weeks in early 1786 lost popularity after 9 performances in Vienna, but really popular in Prague
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Mozart's decline in popularity in Vienna
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caused by Spaniard Martin y Solor's Una Cosa Rara, opera
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1788-1790
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Mozart began begging for loans from friends denied personal responsibility for situation constanze chronically ailing became a freemason emperor joseph had less money because of turkish war mozart unwise with money
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Mozart and Haydn
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mozart dedicated 6 string quartets between 1782-85 3 of these Hayden Quartets played in Vienna 1785 with both of them (and mozart's father) present
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Prague's response to "Figaro-mania"
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had Mozart and da Ponte write another opera in 1787 revived Don Juan legend, wrote Don Giovanni Casanova helped with technical details
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Response to Don Giovanni
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Vienna= unpopular, didn't like the mix of opera seria/comic opera selling out in Germany, Austria, and Prague
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Date of Leopold's death
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May 1787
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Mozart's final 3 symphonies
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nos. 39-41 written in 6 weeks in 1788
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Mozart and Baron van Swieten
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court librarian and musical amateur both studied J.S. Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" and "The Art of Fugue"
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Mozart as a freemason
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started in 1784 influenced the Magic Flute (so did Bach)
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Mozart's and da Ponte's final collaboration
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Cosi fan tutte "they all do it" story of betryal 2 men subject their loves to a test of fidelity, both ladies fail the test least popular-sufferings seen as "too real"
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Mozart and Emanuel Schikaneder
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actor, freemason, set tone for The Magic Flute (proposed the idea in march 1791), drinking buddies personal revision of TMF: had sarasto become hero instead of villian
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The Magic Flute's two important elements
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1. seen as antifeminist: Queen's major sin was challenging authority of men 2. seen as a fairy tale for adults. moves effortlessly between "artless and popular" to "searching and profound"
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The Clemency of Titus
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written for a royal coronation in Prague, no popularity 1791 mozart knew he was dying
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July 1791
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began working on a Requiem for Count Franz von Walsegg who planned to use commission as his own, finished by his student Franz SĂĽssmayr ended up being played at Haydn's funeral
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Mozart's last completed piece
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Masonic cantata for opening of temple
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Mozart's date of death
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12-5-1791, funeral held at Cathedral of St. Stephen memorial service in Prague on December 14th Antonio Salieri conducted memorial service in Vienna
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Antonio Salieri's students
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Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, Karl Mozart (wolfgang's son)
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Librettist Lorenzo da Ponte's final stage of career
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taught italian at columbia university, ran grocery store, bootlegged
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cause of mozart's death
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constant treatments of bleeding & rheumatic fever
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the number of piano concertos mozart wrote in vienna
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17, 30 overall orchestra, 3 movements (fast-slow-fast)
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number of symphonies mozart composed
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41, only 6 are standard repertoire
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instruments wolfgang played:
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violin, viola, piano, organ
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constanze's death
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outlived mozart 51 years, 2 out of 6 children grew to be adults
