Mozart Part 1 The Great Musicians Study of Music enclosed with Record

Mozart Part 1 The Great Musicians Study of Music enclosed with Record

Part of a week by week study of the world's greatest composers and their music. This booklet and record are part one of the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart section.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Born in Salzburg, in the Holy Roman Empire, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty, embarking on a grand tour. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position.

While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in Vienna, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his early death at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death are largely uncertain, and have thus been much mythologized.

Despite his early death, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 600 works of virtually every genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. He is considered among the greatest classical composers of all time, and his influence on Western music is profound. Ludwig van Beethoven composed his early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote: "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years".

This booklet contains information on the composer, his life, and his influences in addition to musical analysis of his works.

The record included is 33 1/3 rpm and is a Piano Concerto in B Flat, K, 595 with Alfred Brendel as the pianist with the Vienna Volksoper Orchestra as accompaniment.

This book is from 1966- so it is very good condition for its age. The record looks to be in good condition with no warping or scratches.

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