Classical Music Period
By the mid 18th century, classical music was established. The composers of classical music created music that was elegant and perfect. The pieces had tuneful melodies with accompanying harmonies.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart was a classical composer who composed over 600 works.
Task
Find out some interesting information about Mozart here.
Listen to Eine kleine Nachtmusik – one of Mozart’s pieces of music here (it’s at the bottom of the page)
Write a fact about Mozart on the blog and then write what you thought about the piece of music – how did it make you feel? What picture could you see if you closed your eyes?
Challenge
Click here to find out some information about the different instruments played in a symphony orchestra. Can you post a fact about one of them.
Mozart had already composed famous songs on the piano when he was a child. He could play violin and piano since he was 3 years old.
Incredible, isn’t it?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classic period. Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood.
Mozart was born January the 27th,1756 in Salzburg and died December the 5th, 1791 in Vienna. Mozart ‘s songs where very famous all around the word. He could play violin and piano since he was 3 years old.
Born on January 27th, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. Died December 5, 1791 in Vienna, Austria. He wrote over 600 works during his life time, including 41 symphonies, Eine klenine Nachtusik, and 27 piano concertos. Three of his famous operas include the marriage of figaro. The magic flute and don Giovanni.
The music makes me feel calm happy and peaceful. The instruments I can here are a piano, violin, trumpet and cello.
My favourite opera by Mozart is The Magic Flute, Gabriella. It is the story of Prince Tamino’s quest to rescue Princess Pamina. My favourite part is the first aria by the Queen of the Night (she is quite scary) but I also like the duet between Papageno, the birdcatcher, and his Papagena.
Well done for naming the instruments you could hear in this piece.
Mozart wrote over 600 works during his lifetime, and he lived only 35 years!
When I was listening to a piece of his music I felt like it was telling me a story that might have been happy, energetic and full of changes and turns, like playing hide and seek.
A flute belongs to the woodwind family of instruments, can be about two feet long and it can be made of silver or gold!
Interesting information Class 3. My dad likes playing some of Mozart’s pieces of music on the piano! I’m glad some of you enjoyed listening to one of his works.
The music makes me happy and the music makes me feel extremely excited. It is very fast and makes me imagine the conductor and his hair going crazy and all over the place.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Date of birth: born January 27 , 1756 in Salzburg, Austria
Nationality: Austrian
Style period : Classical 1750- 1820.
Death: December 5, 1791 in Salzburg, Austria age of 35
Mozart travelled all over Europe and since he constantly travelled he learnt fifteen more languages on the way. He wrote his first piece of music for the piano when he was four and made his own opera when he was only 12!
One night a mysterious stranger came to the door and hired Mozart to quickly write a piece of music for him. Mozart was already ill and he was convinced he was writing music for his own funeral!
During his lifetime, Mozart was very well known for his music and got a lot of money but he spent a lot of his money. He was very poor after then and when he died of kidney failure at the age of 35 he was buried in an unmarked grave.
Mozart was considered by most people that he was the greatest composer that has ever lived. While most composers are good at one set of music, Mozart could do all of them – vocal music, concertos, chamber, symphony, sonatas and opera.
In the first piece of music Eine Kleine Nachtmusik I imagined squirrels chasing each other. In the next piece of music I imagined swans gracefully swaying side to side on the water. In the third piece of music I imagined the queens palace and soldiers guarding the palace.
I love how you are describing how the music makes you feel and what you think of. It’s amazing that music can create amazing pictures in our head. Keep up the good work Class 3 ⭐️
Mozart was a famous musician and composer. He was famous for his music. He played lots of instruments. When I listen to his music I feel relaxed.
Fantastic comments year 3- well done!
Lots of interesting facts so far.
I also like playing Mozart pieces on the piano. Mozart also gave composing lessons to another famous composer called Ludvig van Beethoven – you might want to listen to some music by him too
Thanks Mr Rees! We look forward to you playing a Mozart piece for us when we are back in school ?
Mozart was born Jan 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He died December 5, 1791 in Vienna, Austria.
His full name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart
Instruments played : violin and fortepiano
He started to compose from the age of 5.
Christened Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, he was born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, in what is now Austria( Catholic).
His father, Leopold Mozart was a native of Germany and he also composed music, but was primarily a musician for the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg and pedagogue.
When just three-years-old, Mozart would listen to his sister’s instruction on the clavier (a string keyboard instrument like the harpsichord or the piano), and begin to strike thirds, being delighted with the blending of pitches.
Mozart began his training at the age of five and could play the clavier faultlessly, and had already begun composing small snippets of music by that time. His father was his teacher, instructing him in languages and other academic areas,.
His parents had six children, but only he and his eldest sister, Maria Anna, nicknamed “Nannerl” survived infancy.
He composed over 600 works that are cataloged in the “Kochel”. His earliest works, K. 1-5 were written in childhood, and continue to his unfinished Requiem, which is number K. 626.
From the time he was seven (1762), he began traveling with his father (and family) to perform in various locations around Europe ( Vienna and Prague, as well as Courts in Munich, Paris, and London).
His first symphony was written when he was only eight-years-old.
He was awarded the Order of the Golden Spur (a papal order of knighthood, bestowed on individuals who have contributed to the fame of the Church) by Pope Clement XIV in 1770, for his many religious compositions.
During his final year of life (1791), he was on the road to personal recovery and very productive until his illness started.No one is actually sure of the exact cause of his untimely death.
Joseph Haydn once told Mozart’s father, “I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition.”
Wow Class 3, I think we could write a whole book with all of this information! ??
When I’m listening Mozart I’m feeling peaceful, happy and joyful. When I closed my eyes I pictured an enchanted forest full of sparkly trees and field of juicy fruits.
I could hear recorder, flute, violin and piano.
I really liked this piece of music. It made me feel happy. When I closed my eyes I saw a forest, with animals and insects jumping around.
I could hear many instruments,
Lots of violins, cello. Then the triangle. I even think I heard an organ and some brass instruments.
I play the trumpet which is a brass instrument, you need string lunch to play it.
Mozart could write music before he could write letters.He wrote his first symphony when he was 8.His main rival was Antonio Salieri who claimed to have poisoned Mozart though nobody believed him. When Mozart died his wife Constanze crawled into bed with her dead husband so she could catch the illness and die with him!
Mozart was born on the 27th of January 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He wrote his first sonata for the piano when he was only 4 and composed his first opera at the age of 12. Mozart died while composing his Requiem, at the age of 35 which is very young. He wrote over 600 pieces in 31 years!! One very famous piece he wrote was the inspiration for ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star’ Mozart learned to speak 15 different languages.
I didn’t know Mozart spoke 15 languages, thank you Celestine.
It would take over 8 days to play all of his music, one piece after the next, without stopping. One famous piece that he wrote was variations on “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”.
It made me feel like l was in a ballet, performing.
It makes me feel like I’m in a ballet too Emi. Great knowledge of musical instruments everyone!
I used to play a musical instrument when I was younger. Can you guess what I used to play… it is part of the woodwind group of instruments, it can be difficult to make a sound with it, it is usually silver but you can buy gold ones too.
🙂
Is it the oboe?
Good try Ethan, it’s not an oboe!
He was born January 27,1756 in Salzburg, Austria.
He died December 5, 1791 in Vienna, Austria.
Classical 1750-1820
Mozart wrote over 600 works during his life time, including 41 symphonies ,Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, and 27 piano concerts.
Is it the flute? ☺️?
Yes Chloe, it was a flute! 🙂
Mozart composed an opera when he was twelve!!! And he wrote a sonata when he was four[on the piano]. Mozart invented “Twinkle Twinkle Little star”, and he created really good pieces of music with nearly, any instruments.
When I close my eyes I see a car.
I used to play the voilin but now I play the drums.
He composed the Turkish March when he was 5.
Great findings!
Mozart was born in 1756 and died in 1791. He was 35 years old when he died . Antonio killed Mozart by poisoning him. Mozart’s grave is placed at St. Mark Cemetery, Vienna, Austria.
Last words of Mozart:
“The taste of death is upon my lips…I feel something, that is not on this earth.”
When I closed my eyes I could see Mozart playing the music with the Orchestra.
My dad has the complete works of Mozart! And he said I could listen to one!??
Could hear Cello, Violin, Flute and Oboe
I could also hear piano ? and the drums?.
Hi Clemence, interesting facts. You should definitely listen to your Dads Mozart music! My dad also likes Mozart and his work. ?
Wow ? cool ?! What have you listened so far have you listened to any of them?