Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus MozartSources vary regarding the English pronunciation of Mozart's name. Fradkin 1996, a guide for classical music radio, strongly recommends the use of the phoneme /ts/ for the letter z (thus /ˈwʊlfɡæŋ ˌæməˈdeɪəs ˈmoʊtsɑːrt/ WUULF-gang AM-ə-DAY-əs MOHT-sart), but otherwise considers English-like pronunciation fully acceptable. The German pronunciation is [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ amaˈdeːʊs ˈmoːtsart] ⓘ.Baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. Respectively, these Christian names refer to the following Saints: John Chrysostom, Wolfgang of Regensburg, and Theophilus. Mozart used, at different times and places, different versions of his own name; for details, see Mozart's name. (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) na he be a prolific den influential composer of de Classical period. Despite ein short life, na ein rapid pace of composition den proficiency from an early age result insyd more dan 800 works wey dey represent virtually every Western classical genre of ein time. Na chaw of dese compositions be acknowledged as pinnacles of de symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, den choral repertoires. Mozart be widely regarded as one of de greatest composers insyd de history of Western music,Buch 2017, "Introduction". plus na dem admire ein music for ein "melodic beauty, ein formal elegance den ein richness of harmony den texture".Eisen & Sadie 2001.

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 Baumol, William J., and Hilda Baumol. "On the economics of musical composition in Mozart's Vienna." Journal of Cultural Economics 18.3 (1994): 171–198. online



  (first published by Chapman and Hall in 1845).

 Keefe, Simon P. Mozart (Routledge, 2018).
 Keefe, Simon P., ed. Mozart in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
 Marshall, Robert Lewis. Bach and Mozart: Essays on the Enigma of Genius (University of Rochester Press, 2019).

 Reisinger, Elisabeth. "The Prince and the Prodigies: On the Relations of Archduke and Elector Maximilian Franz with Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn." Acta Musicologica 91.1 (2019): 48–70 excerpt.
 Schroeder, David. Experiencing Mozart: A Listener's Companion (Scarecrow, 2013). excerpt




 External links 

 Homepage for the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation
 "Discovering Mozart". BBC Radio 3.
 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at IMDb

Digitized documents
 Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at Project Gutenberg

 Works by or about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Internet Archive
 Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) 
 "Mozart" Titles; Mozart as author at Google Books
 Digital Mozart Edition Archived 18 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine (Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum)
 "Mozart" titles from Gallica (insyd French)
 From the British Library
 Mozart's Thematic Catalogue Archived 7 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
 Mozart's Musical Diary Archived 24 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine
 Background information on Mozart and the Thematic Catalogue Archived 14 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine
 Letters of Leopold Mozart und Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (insyd German) (Baden State Library)

Sheet music
 Complete sheet music (scores) from the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum)
 Mozart scores from the Munich Digitization Center (MDZ)
 Mozart titles from the University of Rochester

 Free scores by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
 Free scores by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
 Free typeset sheet music of Mozart's works from Cantorion.org

 The Mutopia Project has compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Musopen project


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