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NOTE: I Did NOT make these up. I found them on the internet.
Mozart's full name:
-Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophillus Amadeus Gottlieb Sigismundus Mozart.
-Theophillus, Amadeus, Gottlieb, and Sigismundus all meant the same thing, just in different languages. They mean "Beloved of God." His family called him Wolferl.
-Mozart Could write music notes before he could write words!!
-Mozart was a knight!
---He became a knight when he was presented with the Papal Order of the Golden spur as a boy. He was given the Papal Order of the Golden Spur by the pope of Rome, Clement XIV. Mozart was given this honor because he wrote a complicated piece down on paper after hearing it only once!
---This piece was called Miserere by Gregorio Allegri.
-Mozart composed over 600 musical works!
Sounds Like
Trans Siberian Orchestra.
Beethoven.(this is a matter of opinion)
College Choirs.
I was not able to find any Mozart on Myspace so I took the liberty to put some Mozart up on Myspace. I AM NOT MOZART! I just want some Mozart on Myspace. Mozart is a composer who should be heard and appreciated. He wrote some beautiful music.
Heres a real Bio of Mozart if you feel like wasting part of your life reading it.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Saltzburg, Austria in 1756. One of the greatest composers the world has ever seen. By the age of four, he had such extraordinary powers of musical memory and appreciation, that his father Leopold, a highly esteemed violinist and composer in his own right, enrolled Wolfgang into Harpsichord lessons. His reputation as a musical prodigy quickly spread. At the age of five, he was composing music, and by the age of six, he was a keyboard master. In 1762, his father, took the young Wolfgang and his sister Maria Anna to tour Munich and Vienna.
From that moment, Mozart was a constant performer and writer of music. He was the toast of Austria, and gave many concerts and performances in the Palaces and Houses of Noble families. Wherever he appeared, people were in awe of his musical prowess. He also performed for the Empress Maria Theresa at the Schonbrunn Palace. By his Teenage years, he was a master of Piano, Violin and Harpsichord, and was writing not only Oratorios, but Symphonies and Operas. His first major Opera to be performed was "Mitridate,Re di Ponto" and was presented in Milan in 1770. He was still only fourteen, but it was such a success that critics even compared him to Handel.
Mozart at fifteen years of age, was installed as the Concertmaster in the orchestra of the Prince-Archbishop Siegismund, Count of Schrafttenbach of Saltzburg. His relationship with the succeeding Archbishop, Hieronymus Count Colloredo, although, very successful in the early years, deteriorated to the point where, in 1777 he resigned from his position and proceeded to Vienna quite against his father's wishes.
Before joining Freemasonry, Mozart wrote Masonic music and his first work was named "Ode to a Solemn St. John's Lodge" and was written in Saltzburgh in 1772. The second was "Thamos, King in Egypt" which he wrote in 1773. Little is known about the Masonic life of Mozart, except that he was Initiated an Apprentice on December 7th 1785, in the Lodge "Zur wahren Eintracht." He then became a member of Lodge "Zur Neugekronte Hoffhnung."
He was a poor businessman, and finances were always tight, especially after his marriage to Constanze Weber. His was a very extravagant and debt ridden existence. Political infighting at the Vienna Court kept him from the important patronage that composers of the period so relied upon and, he descended to a life of genteel poverty. His musical compositions, however, continued at a prolific rate, but his popularity waned, and he eventually fell back on his teaching work and to the charity of his friends to make ends meet. In 1788, he stopped performing in public, preferring to compose, but his fortunes never did return to that of earlier years. When he died in 1791 at the age of thirty-five, he was buried in a pauper's grave.
During his eventful but very short life, he composed over six hundred works, including fifty Symphonies, and some Twenty-One stage pieces and Operas. To say that he was a composer of unequalled genius, is scarcely scratching the surface of this remarkable man's remarkable gifts. He wrote music, complete and perfect, down to the last accent and inflection. He, in fact, would put pen to paper as fast as he would think. The peerless craft with which each piece of music was created continues to amaze, even today. He was a master of counterpoint and, the other traditional compositional devices of his day. More than this, he was perhaps the greatest melody writer the world has ever known. His Operas range from the comic to tragic masterpieces. His "Requiem" composed not long before his own death, stands with Bach's "St. Matthews Passion" as the supreme example of vocal music. His last Opera "Die Zauberflote" "The Magic Flute" became very successful, even in his days. Today this Opera is still awe inspiring and a favoured piece in the eyes of Freemasonry.
I Obviously DID NOT write any of that. I found it on the internet.
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