MUAR 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Dramma Giocoso, Maria Anna Mozart
20 Feb 2018
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Mozart was born in salzburg, austria, the son of an esteemed composer-violinist (leopold mozart, author of the ) 1752 treatise on the fundamental. Principles of violin playing) who was employed at the court of the prince-archbishop of salzburg. Rigorously trained as a keyboard virtuoso at an early age, his father organized concert tours in which amadeus and his sister, nannerl ann, performed music before european royalty in vienna, As was typical of the period in an aristocratic social milieu, nannerl was discouraged from performing during her brother"s musical tours once she reached marriageable age. [https://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/maria_anna_mozart: a. mozart was an extremely precocious young musician who played both keyboards and violin well, and composed a variety of genres at a very early age. As a youth he was adored, and served in the prince-archbishop"s aristocratic music establishment as honorary assistant kapellemeister, wearing the uniform seen on these images rather like a young, virtuoso mascot.
