The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-15
MOZART.

The names of the great musical compos-
crs are familiar to all, yet a brief biographi-
cal sketch of Mozart may not be uninterest-
ing to the musical public at this time, when
they are engaged in practicing the divine
art which he so much loved and honored.
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgang Anna
deus Mozart was a son of an eminent violin
list, born in Saltzburg, January 81, 1856,
and died December 5, 1901. In his third
year he attracted the notice of his father
by the delight he found in striking chords
upon the harpischord and by the ease with
which he learned pleasing passages in the
music lessons of his sister, In his fourth
year his father began to teach him short
lessons with the harpischord. In his fifth
year he composed little melodies with sim
pie but perfectly correct harmonies, which
his father wrote out. His intellect was cX-
ceedingly quick, and although music was
all in all to him, he exhibited great Talents
for the study of tho languages and mathe-
MATES. In visiting the courts of Europe
with his father, enlarged opportunities were
afforded him of hearing the best music in
all styles and departments, and of making
the acquaintance of the best performers of
that age.
We shall not be able to trace him through
all his wanderings or even give list of his
musical productions He was educated in
the best schools, and learned of the great
masters of his time. He was employed at
courts and societies in the production of
operas and higher music.
His last great work was the ''Rcquicm, to
which Mozart gave all the strength Of his
powers, all the force of his genius. AS he
had been unable to learn the name of who
had ordered it, he began to fancy something
supernatural in the affair. His previous
labors had reduced him and brought his
nervous system into condition which re-
quired Il long period of rest and recreation.
This he denied himself. The restless
energy with which he wrought upon the
Requiem enfeebled him daily. His work
was taken from him and rest was COMPEL
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resumed his labors but was soon attacked
with rheumatic fever, and after two
weeks confinement to his bed he died. On
the last day of his life he busted himself
with the Requiem which he now fancied
he was composing for his own obseques.
but died leaving it unfinished but it was
afterward finished by Suessmcicr, who had
often conversed with Mozart upon the plan
of the work.
We have been able to give only brief
sketch of his life, and but little idea of the
vastness of the mass of his compositions
during his short life of SO years More
than 800 works of his are known.
But it is not so much the quantity as the
excellence of his music which excites the
establishment of the musician This was
owing not more to the greatness of his in
tellect than to his profound studies, which
from infancy to the close Of his life never
ceased.
Two generations of musicians have been
educated by the productions of Mozart, and
his ideas have become common property
and none since his time equal him in gem
ius, knowledge and taste 1t was in oper-
attic composition he reached the acme of his
fame, and he stands above all his predcces-
sors. AS an instrumental composer only
one has probably surpassed him, Beethoven,
who said of Mozart, to his father.
" tell you before God and as man of
honor, that look upon your son as the