Mozart

Mozart's Four Famous Operas
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) was one of the most productive composers of classical music. Many people love him for the chamber music and the symphonies he wrote, but many people also love him for his operas. He actually wrote more than the four I picked out, but those four are the most famous. Most of his operas have a funny touch to them, they belong to the category "opera buffa". "Don Giovanni" however is something different. Whereas Osmin, the overseer is at the same time funny an...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Some of his famous works
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the most productive composers of his time. "Wunderkind" is one of the names people have been giving him, due to the fact that he played music and composed music already as a very young child. His father proudly presented him to dukes and princes, as a kind of music monstrosity (and got quite well paid for it). Later on Wolfgang Mozart decided to go his own way and to act against the instructions of his father, something which was not easy at that period of ...

Mozart: An Illustrated Biography
Mozart: one of the greatest composers of all time
This is a lens about Mozart's life and work, and also a place to watch and listen to some of the finest Mozart Youtube videos. The video selections represent different stages in Mozart's eventful though tragically short life. When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who lived from 1756 to 1791, was a young boy, his father, Leopold stopped concentrating on his own music to provide his son with a strict musical education. Mozart was able to play the piano with a blindfold on and had already composed his ...