Like Constanze, their motives were personal enrichment and self-aggrandizement. His father Leopold was a violinist who worked for the Archbishop of Salzburg. Two-out-of-seven: a tragic survival rate, but oh what survivors! By — when Wolfgang was three and Maria Anna was eight — Leopold Mozart had come to realize that arrayed around his family dinner table was a gold mine of talent, particularly the boy.
This Leopold did. At some point the entire Mozart clan came to see Wolfgang as a permanent child. As a small child, young Wolfgang idolized his father. But even the most compliant children become surly with age on this I can speak with the authority of experience , and by the time Wolfgang was an adolescent, Leopold could no longer count on his unqualified obedience.
Leopold Mozart was nothing if not adaptable, and so over time his bullying took ever new forms, including harangues and guilt trips that would make even my Jewish mother blush, and no slouch was she. Leopold Mozart was the original tennis father and tiger mama, but nothing he did could prevent his son from growing up. For this Leopold Mozart disinherited his son, thereby denying Wolfgang his share of the money he had earned during the concert tours of his childhood!
His sister: Maria Anna. But what really, really irked Leopold and his weasel of a daughter was how wrong they were about Wolfgang. Their predictions that he would crash and burn once he was on his own were completely wrong.
Having settled in Vienna, Mozart quickly became a man about town: a celebrity whose activities were the stuff of gossip. He was a tireless worker. Between and he composed over pieces of music which spanned every conceivable genre and style, from solo keyboard music and concerti to duos, trios, quartets, quintets, songs, arias, operas, wind ensembles and symphonies: something for everyone.
In a letter to his father dated March 4, , Mozart listed 22! I have subscribers already and shall easily get another thirty. As you may imagine, I must play some new works — and therefore I must compose. The whole morning is taken up with pupils and almost every evening I have to perform. And I did it all without you! She felt much better afterwards — but some days later she complained of being cold … and because she kept getting worse — she could hardly talk anymore and lost her hearing so that I had to shout at her… I am not saying that my mother will die or has to die and that all hope is lost — she can get well again, but only if God wants her to … ".
On Corpus Christi it was performed with great applause … ". Mozart to his friend Joseph Bullinger: " …this was the saddest day of my life — I am writing this at 2. Mozart to his father: " …I hope you will be ready to listen to one of the saddest and most painful news and yet remain steadfast …. I had to comfort myself, do the same, my dear father and my dear sister… ".
The French influence is becoming apparent in the concerts KV and KV , among other things, by terminology and the enclosed final movements rondeau. Perhaps the changes that Mozart made in the concert KV are due to this influence. Since Mozart played this concert in Augsburg himself, he also had the note materials with him and perhaps, what he indicates in his letter from Paris to his father, dated 11 September , is true especially for KV The Webers in the meantime are already in Munich and Mozart is rejected by Aloysia.
A good friendship develops between the two of them. Mozart to his father: " …Now I had the best opportunity to recommend my dear Weber girl with all my heart to him Mr. Raaff — however, I did not have to tell him much, he was already quite taken by her.
He promised me that he would give her lessons and will care for her as soon as he returns to Mannheim.. Leopold Mozart to his son: " …since I always believed you ought to view me more as your best friend than your father; on more than a hundred occasions I showed you that I am more concerned for your happiness and pleasure than I am for my own.
With all my might, I will strive to deserve your fatherly love even more…". I did not want to report the despicable tyrannical circumstances which forced my son to leave his homeland to you, my lord. It was the 23rd September last year, when I was quite ill with a chest disease and yet I had to withstand the pain to see my wife and son leave. A family had to be torn apart… " 31 July Mozart to Joseph Bullinger: " …that Salzburg was no location for my talent.
First of all, musicians are not held in esteem there, and secondly, there is nothing — no theatre, no opera. If one really wanted to play, who would sing? The cruel Frenchmen are the cause that the music is without a conductor … " 7 August After 16 months they return to Salzburg where Mozart is appointed to "court and cathedral organist". He receives guilders.
Back in Salzburg Mozart develops a totally new musical language. The three symphonies nos. The first personal meeting with Haydn takes place in Vienna in The Sinfonia Concertante probably originated in ES for the violin, viola and orchestra KV in the summer or early autumn.
Mozart might have viewed it as a challenge to make this new genre popular in Salzburg, especially since here the corresponding good instrumentalists were available. Mozart travels to Munich to finish his opera Idomeneo. The first rehearsals take place in December. He himself describes this phase in which he composed this opera, as the happiest of his life. The end of January is the premiere of the opera Idomeneo. Mozart receives the order to go to Vienna on the occasion of the appointment of the new emperor Joseph II.
The archbishop wants to present his music band. Mozart to his father: " …I have a charming room in the same house where the archbishop resides …Ceccarelli, Brunetti and myself are sitting on top, at least I have the honour to sit in front of the chefs … " 24 March Mozart has to compose and be ready to make music whenever the archbishop desires. He composes the violin rondo and the orchestra KV for Brunetti. On 8th April it is performed in Vienna. A dispute with the archbishop arises. Mozart temporarily moves in with the Webers and begs to resign.
Earl Arco agrees to it by booting him. There were 3 pieces by me, of course new ones. A rondeau to a concert for Brunetti, a sonata accompanied by a violin KV , Brunetti-sonata for myself which I composed last night from p. I only wrote the accompanyment voice for Brunetti, but kept my part in my head so that I was able to finish it … " 8 April I am writing all this in the most natural German language because the world should know that the archbishop of Salzburg did not lose me forever only because of you, my dearest father.
Yesterday there was a great academy, presumably the last one. He should cite reasons or just let the language go as it goes, but he has no business calling people a lout or a boy and kick you out of the door by giving you a kick in the ass … " 9 June Mozart settles down in Vienna after his break with the archbishop and receives an imperial order for an opera The kidnapping from the Serail.
He begins to have more intense contact with Konstanze Weber. To his father: " …for some time now I have meant to move out of the Webers; and it will certainly happen. I honestly did not know that I was supposed to live at Mr. I am sorry that I am forced to do so now because of silly gossip, with not a true word in it. I sure would like to know what certain people get out of gossipping all day long without any reason. I am not opposed to marriage, but at the moment it would most certainly be bad for me As soon as they are sold and I will receive money, I will send you some … ".
Sieber in Paris … " 10 August Not one of the Webers? Yes, one of the Webers! Not Josepha, not Sophie, but Konstanze, the one in the middle… Before I tell you more, I have to get you more acquainted with the character of my dearest Konstanze.
She is not ugly, and nothing less than beautiful. Her entire beauty consists of small eyes and a beautiful figure.
She is not witty, but has enough common sense, to accomplish her duties as a wife and mother … ". We love each other and want each other … " December The family Auerhammer also belonged to his circle of friends from Vienna. Mozart gives piano lessons to their daughter, Josepha. Besides that, he dedicates to her his first Vienna publication, the six violin sonatas op.
His actions scandalized his native city of Augsburg and brought great shame to his family. He wrote a friend:. The dowry was never paid, which led to a bitter and permanent estrangement between Leopold and his mother. He never wrote to her, saw her, or spoke to her again even though she lived for another 19 years, until , by which time Wolfgang was 10 years old.
For Leopold, the making and giving of money came to represent love and acceptance or disrespect and rejection. Monetary issues would lie as well at the heart of his relationship with his only son, Wolfgang. Leopold slowly worked his way up the musical ladder in Salzburg.
In when Wolfgang was 7 he was named deputy Kapellmeister, the highest rank he would attain. His bitterness and contempt for authority grew with age. Over time it became clear that Leopold Mozart was not going to be able to fulfill his ambitions — particularly his more vengeful ones — through his own talents. He was a competent though undistinguished composer who gave up composing after , when Wolfgang was six.
He resented having to play in the Salzburg court orchestra and all but refused to give lessons. But he had a card up his sleeve, and that card was his little boy. By the time Wolfgang was six, Leopold was convinced that he would bring him wealth, social status, and — of equal importance — vengeance for his past humiliations.
Leopold says just so much in a letter dated December , in which he writes that his 11 year-old son:.
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