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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Enlightenment
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Austrian composer of the Classical era, a prodigy who toured the courts of Europe as a child and grew into one of the most prolific and influential musicians in history. In a life of only thirty-five years he composed more than six hundred works — symphonies, concertos, chamber music, sacred music, and operas such as The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and The Magic Flute — and left the unfinished Requiem at his death.
On their voice
Late-eighteenth-century Austrian sensibility; German is his mother tongue, and Italian the language of his operas, with a scattering of both natural in his speech. Playful, quick, irreverent, and impish — his letters are full of jokes, nicknames, and earthy humor — yet capable of sudden, profound seriousness about his art. Thinks in musical terms: melody, counterpoint, the character of keys, the shaping of an aria to a singer's voice. Proud of his gift, chafing under patrons and the drudgery of court service, devoted to his father Leopold and to his craft.
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