It is a fairly well known film by Peter Shaffer on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life with a very interesting dramatic story. Amadeus covers the time that Mozart spent mostly in Vienna, the musical center of Europe at the time. ... Amadeus begins in the 1820s, with an aging Antonio Salieri screaming "Mozart! ... This person is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ... Overall, Amadeus seems to be an achievement rich of details and powerful drama that cover one of the most important stages of the life of one of the greatest classical period composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ...

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December 4, 1792 was the date that the great Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died. ... Amadeus exemplifies Salieri's ordinariness against Mozart genius. ... Mozart's personality in Amadeus is portrayed as childish, vulgar, and unfit. ... Therefore, Amadeus is still a treat to watch with dramatic twists to Mozart's life. Aside from winning an Oscar, it also awakened many, I believe, to the musical talent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ...

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed many operas, symphonies, and pieces of music that your guarunteed to know at least one by heart. Born Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, most people called him Mozart or Wolfgang. Mozart, baptized Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was born in Salzburg, Austria, on January 27, 1756 to Leopold, Kapellmeister to the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, and Anna Maria Mozart. ... Wolfgang's musicianship greatly impressed his sister though. ... The Mozarts returned to Salzburg in 1771. ...

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the best composers in history. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, January 27, 1756 (EarlyMusic.com). ... Wolfgang was also interested in the sound of violin and piano and studied them in many countries. ... When Wolfgang was in Paris, he performed five sonatas in the procession that he wrote when he was ten, and people walking through were impressed by his musical compositions. ... He moved back to Salzburg where the theater paid him the best salary for each opera production, about 150 florins a year (Wolfgang-amadeus.at). ...

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus who was born in Salzburg in 1756 was a composer in the classic period, which is considered one of the most brilliant composers that ever lived. ... Mozart was thought by his father how to play the piano since his father was a violinist and composer. By age six Mozart had become an outstanding performer on the clavier, violin, and organ. ... The young Mozart absorbed the musical styles of great composers, piano players and opera writers. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was well known by a lot of important people but he also new a lot of people fo...

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a man born into an amazing musical talent. ... The movie AMADEUS illustrates Mozart's life as seen by another composer, Salieri. ... Mozart and his wife had a loving yet conflicting relationship. ... When she finds Salieri at Mozart's side, she orders him out, against what Salieri states is Mozart's will. ... In the end, Mozart's wife wound up basically asking Mozart's father to get out of their house. ...

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In my 17th year (1787) as harpsichordist, I visited Vienna and was granted an opportunity to play for the legendary composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. I performed brilliantly, and deeply impressed Mozart. ...

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Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg. ... Mozart was educated by his father, Leopold Mozart. ... This concerto was Mozart's last work before he died. ... Mozart does not introduce a second orchestral subject. ... Mozart uses the lower brass to emphasise this impression. ...

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Derived from the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's musical catalogue, the Köchel Series does not sit far from Maggs' major conceptual concerns. ... The Köchel Series can be seen as an abstract biography of Mozart, an index of the composer's development as an artist from life to death. For example, K. 1a is a short piece of harpsichord Mozart composed when he was 5 years old, and K. 626 is the Requiem he was working on just prior to his death in 1791 at the age of 35. ... In these prints that are approximate the proportions of LP covers, Maggs' bracketing revives ...

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Neefe exclaimed, "He would surely become a second Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart if he were to continue as he has begun" (Kerman 355). ... The most influential friend he met was probably Mozart. Beethoven looked up to Mozart and actually went to Munich for a few weeks to ask Mozart to give him a theme for improvisation. Mozart also thought highly of him by exclaiming to his friends, "Keep your eyes on him; someday he will give the world something to talk about" (Orga 33). ... Although Mozart had fifty symphonies and Haydn had over 100, Beethoven's nine surpassed theirs because his were l...

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