During the first of these trips, Mozart met Andrea Luchesi in Venice and G.B. Mozart was commissioned to compose three operas: " Mitridate Rè di Ponto" (1770), " Ascanio in Alba" (1771), and "Lucio Silla" (1772), all three of which were performed in Milan. On this trip Mozart contracted smallpox, and his healing was considered by Leopold as a proof of God's intentions concerning the child.Īfter one year in Salzburg, three trips to Italy followed: from December 1769 to March 1771, from August to December 1771, and from October 1772 to March 1773. They again went to Vienna in late 1767 and remained there until December 1768. Bach's work is often taken to be an inspiration for Mozart's music. A particularly important influence was Johann Christian Bach, who befriended Mozart in London in 1764–65. During this trip Mozart met a great number of musicians and acquainted himself with the works of other great composers.
A long concert tour spanning three and a half years followed, taking him and his father to the courts of Munich, Mannheim, Paris, London (where Wolfgang Amadeus played with the famous Italian cellist Giovanni Battista Cirri), The Hague, again to Paris, and back home via Zürich, Donaueschingen, and Munich. "Bologna Mozart" - Mozart age 21 in 1777, see also: face onlyĭuring his formative years, Mozart made several European journeys, beginning with an exhibition in 1762 at the Court of the Elector of Bavaria in Munich, then in the same year at the Imperial Court in Vienna and Prague.
1b), were written in 1761, when he was five years old. Mozart's first compositions, a small Andante (K. A note by Leopold in Nannerl's music book – the Nannerl Notenbuch – records that little Wolfgang had learned several of the pieces at the age of four. Leopold was Wolfgang's only teacher in his earliest years. They first came to light when Wolfgang was about three years old, and Leopold, proud of Wolfgang's achievements, gave him intensive musical training, including instruction in clavier, violin, and organ. Leopold gave up composing when his son's outstanding musical talents became evident. He was deputy Kapellmeister to the court orchestra of the Archbishop of Salzburg, and a prolific and successful composer of instrumental music. His influential textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule, was published in 1756, the year of Mozart's birth (English, as "A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing", transl. Mozart's father Leopold Mozart (1719–1787) was one of Europe's leading musical teachers. Mozart himself preferred the third name, and he also took a fancy to "Amadeus" over the years. Mozart's father Leopold announced the birth of his son in a letter to the publisher Johann Jakob Lotter with the words ".the boy is called Joannes Chrysostomus, Wolfgang, Gottlieb". Of these names, the first two refer to John Chrysostom, one of the Church Fathers, and they were names not employed in everyday life, while the fourth, meaning "beloved of God", was variously translated in Mozart's lifetime as Amadeus (Latin), Gottlieb (German), and Amadé (French). The baptismal record gives his name in Latinized form as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. Mozart was baptized the day after his birth at St. His only sibling who survived beyond infancy was an older sister: Maria Anna, nicknamed Nannerl. Mozart was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl Mozart, in the front room of nine Getreidegasse in Salzburg, the capital of the sovereign Archbishopric of Salzburg, in what is now Austria, then part of the Holy Roman Empire. Plaque on wall outside Mozart's birthplace at Getreidegasse 9, Salzburg, Austria
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