Mozart is one of those names that seem to haunt us.
In fact, it's the first thing we think of when we hear the term "classical music."
Then we respond:
"Ah, yes, Mozart!".
And yes, he did:
In terms of musical composition, Mozart wrote masterpieces in every genre that was in vogue during his time:
What works did Mozart write?
Mozart mastered all the musical genres of his time. These are some of his most representative masterpieces:
- Serious opera: Don Giovanni (1787)
- Comic opera: Così fan tutte (1790)
- Symphony: Symphony No. 41, Jupiter (1788)
- Piano Concerto: Piano Concerto No. 21 (1785)
- Chamber music: String quintet in G minor K.516. (1787)
- Serenade: Small nocturnal serenade (1787)
- Sonata: Piano Sonata No. 11, Turkish March (1784)
- Choral music: Coronation Mass (1779)
What era is Mozart from?
Mozart's art embodies the ideological and aesthetic essence of musical classicism. musical classicismparallel to the Enlightenment.
That is to say:
- Humans are able to understand their destiny through thought.
- The music is at the service of the idea and therefore must be balanced (for example, while the climax of a baroque aria happens at the end, in a classical area it happens in the middle).
Did Mozart have anything to do with the French Revolution?
In spiritual terms, Mozart is synonymous with liberation.
In his opera The Marriage of Figaro (1785) he makes a servant a servant to make fun of his master...
... and four years later the French Revolution broke out.
Therefore, at least on an ideological level Mozart can be considered an important influence.
Is Mozart a romantic composer?
Mozart is a precursor of Musical Romanticismwhere music ceases to be at the service of the idea to be at the service of the emotions, specifically of the passions.
Feeling without limits as the maximum conquest of the free man (an attitude that musically Beethoven took to its maximum consequences).
Mozart was murdered?
Mozart, unfortunately, is also synonymous with tragedy.
He died at the age of 35, on December 5, 1791, after a long and painful illness, while writing his own Requiem (which he left unfinished and was completed by his pupil Süssmayer based on his notes).
Some suspect that he was murdered, although there is no basis to affirm it.
Today, Mozart's death remains a mystery, Mozart's death remains a mystery..
Does listening to Mozart help children?
Therefore, the word Mozart is associated with classical music.
Also of freedom and tragedy.
When a girl or boy excels in any discipline, it is common to say.
She is the Mozart of swimming.
He is the Mozart of chess.
She is the Mozart of chemistry.
So Mozart is also synonymous with precocious genius in any discipline.
<h2> ¿Por qué Mozart es tan famoso?
In doubt and sadness, as in illusion and impetus, Mozart's music has the power to bring us tranquility, hope and consolation.
But when the Minería Symphony asks us:
"Who was Mozart?".
We respond:
"A composer whose music of excellence plays, shines and spreads joy.".
