Category: Biographies
Mozart’s Parentage--Early Development of his Genius--Character as a Child--Travels at the Age of Six--Received by Maria Theresa and Marie Antoinette--Mozart and Goethe--Meeting with Madame de Pompadour--The London Bach’s Opinion of Young Mozart--Asked to Write an Opera by Jose...
Mozart’s Parentage--Early Development of his Genius--Character as a Child--Travels at the Age of Six--Received by Maria Theresa and Marie Antoinette--Mozart and Goethe--Meeting...
2. CHAPTER II.Disgusted with Salzburg--In Vienna Again--Salzburg Society--Character of Musicians in the Last Century--Jerome Colloredo, Archbishop of Salzburg--Mozart’s Letter to Him--The Fat...
3. CHAPTER III.New Disappointments--Opposition of the Abbe Vogler--Mozart and the Poet Wieland--Wieland’s Impressions of Mozart--German Opera and Joseph II--The Weber Family--Aloysia Weber--Mo...
4. CHAPTER IV.Opinions on the Idomeneo--Tired of Salzburg--Goes to Vienna--The Archbishop Again--Mozart Treated by Him with Indignity--Paternal Reproaches--Assailed by Slander--He Leaves Salz...
5. CHAPTER V.Haydn’s Opinion of Mozart--Made Court Composer by Joseph II--Don Giovanni in Vienna--Mozart’s Extreme Poverty--His Cheerfulness under Adverse Circumstances--“The Song of the Swa...
6. CHAPTER I.Mozart’s Parentage--Early Development of his Genius--Character as a Child--Travels at the age of Six--Received by Maria Theresa and Marie Antoinette--Mozart and Goethe--Meeting...
7. CHAPTER II.Disgusted With Salzburg--In Vienna Again--Salzburg Society--Character of Musicians in the Last Century--Jerome Colloredo, Archbishop of Salzburg--Mozart’s Letter to Him--The Fat...
8. CHAPTER III.New Disappointments--Opposition of the Abbe Vogler--Mozart and the Poet Wieland--Wieland’s Impressions of Mozart--German Opera and Joseph II.--The Weber Family--Aloysia Weber--M...
9. CHAPTER IV.Opinions on the Idomeneo--Tired of Salzburg--Goes to Vienna--The Archbishop Again--Mozart Treated by him with Indignity--Paternal Reproaches--Assailed by Slander--He Leaves Salz...
10. CHAPTER V.Haydn’s Opinion of Mozart--Made Court Composer by Joseph II.--Don Giovanni in Vienna--Mozart’s Extreme Poverty--His Cheerfulness under Adverse Circumstances--“The Song of the Sw...