The login page will open in a new tab. This piece had been written for the Pope for the choir of the Vatican to sing. The story which has been current since the early biographies were published, which still continues to be disseminated, is that Mozart suffered a series of illnesses during his life which resulted in grave deterioration in his health, and during his last year he fought a losing battle against chronic disease. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart And music, finished as no music is ever finished.
Mozart wrote more than 600 musical works, all of the very highest quality.

The three operas in which he set words by Lorenzo Da Ponte: Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) and Cosi fan tutte each include some very clever ensembles in which several characters are singing at once, each one showing his or her view of the situation. Mozart and his sister were the only survivors of their mother’s seven children. [8], The marriage finally took place in an atmosphere of crisis. [to Mozart]  "[9] Heartz relates, "Constanze's sister Sophie had tearfully declared that her mother would send the police after Constanze if she did not return home [presumably from Mozart's apartment]. Antonio Salieri By using this site you consent to this use in our Cookie & Privacy Policy | Hosted & Managed in the UK by RocketWP, © 2020 Norman Lebrecht. My dear Constanze is really the cause of this fugue's coming into the world.

He relocated to Vienna where he met with some success. Certainly some remarkable piano talents might have made his style seem obsolete. [2], The family moved to Vienna in 1779, again following Aloysia as she pursued her career. : She and Mozart had six children: Karl Thomas Mozart, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, and four others who died in infancy. His concertos, especially his piano concertos, are far more advanced than anything that had been written before.


By 1778, Mozart and his mother were in Paris. Then in his final ten weeks he went on to complete The Magic Flute, and the clarinet concerto, composed a cantata for his Masonic Lodge and started the Requiem Mass. Page after page of it as if he were just taking dictation. His physician and friend Sigismund Barasani died suddenly at the age of 29, and the physician who attended him in his final illness, Dr Mathias Sallaba, died six years later at the age of 31. Mozart was buried in the St. Marx Cemetery. You don't want tea, do you, Papa? The alternative to breast milk was the use of pap which was bread boiled with water or beer to which sugar was added. When Mozart was young a symphony was usually a short, simple piece for entertainment.