CLASSICAL PERIOD

1750-1830 (

more or less)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1756-1791

Miss Gloria Diuco

Age 3: started to
play the
HARPSICHORD

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Already competent on keyboard and
violin, he composed at the age of five
and performed before European
royalty.

Children during Mozarts

time dressed just like
adults.

One of his
First work
VARIATIONS OF
Twinkle Twinkle Little
Star

age of 12wrote his first complete opera!

Leopold Mozart-Father
Very respected composer
and violinist
A CONCERTMASTER
First Teacher

The Mozart Family

SISTINE CHAPEL

On the way back from the second European tour, the

family passed through Rome on Easter. As with any
tourist, they visited St. Peter's to hear the famous

Miserere

sung at the

Mozart was 14 years old

Sistine Chapel.

Miserere is a 10 minute piece written for 9

voices. You are listening to it now.
The

It was so sacred that it was only performed

once a year in the Sistine Chapel on Easter.

Nobody, except the performers,

was ever allowed to see the music.
After each performance,
the musicians and singers were required
to immediately turn in their music to
Roman Catholic authorities.

Upon arriving at their lodging

that evening, the 14-year old Mozart
sat down and wrote out the
entire 10-minute piece from memory.

Mozart could often be rude to

nobility and to other composers
He knew that he was a genius, and
often offended other composers
and royalty

He can speak 15
different
languages

Able to hear and

complete
pieces in his
head
Mozarts music
was meant to be fun
and entertaining

My pay is too
much for what
I do,
too little for
what
I could do.
Mozart

Mozart was 35
years old when he
died in 1791.
In his short life
he wrote over 600
musical pieces

Dec. 5, 1791, a few

minutes before 1AM,
Mozart died of rheumatic
fever.

He was survived
by his wife
Constanze and two
sons.

REQUIEM
A musical mass for
the dead
Or
a musical
composition for the
dead

UNFINISHED
COMPOSITION
Requiem in d
minor
Or
LACRIMOSA
He was
commissioned to
compose a
requiem ( but he
died before
completing his

COMPOSITIONS
Turkish March
Anne Kleine
Nachtmusik
Requiem in D
Minor
Serenade

He was poor when

he died
*Buried in an
unmarked grave
* Up to this time,
body cant be
located, buried
like a pauper

What did Mozart look like? Who knows! Every portrait of him looks entirely
different.