Mozart THE MAN AND THE LEGEND Overview Birthplace

Mozart THE MAN AND THE LEGEND

Overview �Birthplace and upbringing �How he came to music and his development �The composing wonders of his life �His death

Early years �born in Salzburg Austria in the year January 27, 1756 �Father was a musician �Mozart actually began playing at age 3 �Began composing at age 6 �Father saw potential and made Wolfgang his life’s work

His development as a musician �Mozart began by playing duets with his sister �Father took a great interest in their learning �Eventually the Mozarts began to tour headlining as a boy prodigy �Mozarts father pushed him to constantly make more money through performances �Mozarts skills only grew as he became a young man

The Personal life of Wolfgang Mozart �As mozart grew up his father initially pushed him away from marriage and courting �As the years passed mozart was married and lived a frivolous lifestyle �Mozart and his spouse came on harder times which caused him to fall into a depression.

The wonders of mozarts life in composing �Mozarts composed his first symphony at age 6 �Mozart continued to compose symphonies as he toured with his father �Mozart usually composed per commission, or as a gift for a close friend or loved one. �Every genre he touched he mastered easily and perfected, He was a master

The death and legend of Wolfgang Mozart �The last years of mozarts life were mostly overshadowed by his deep depression �Before his death to fatal illness mozart did make a recovery and composed some of his finest work �The sheer number and diversity of compositions in his short lifetime eclipses any other composer