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textlab.io  Wolfgang (or Wolferl, as his family called him) was a child prodigy. He composed his first piece of music at age five; he had h. ... Beethoven had already made his mark on Vienna by composing music not just in the ... 1756, Salzburg, Austria Died December 5, 1791, Wien, Austria Performance Time approximately 11 minutes...
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Mozart: The Janissary Music - Classics For Kids  In the 18th century, Janissary music became all the rage in Europe. ... When Janissary music caught on in Europe, many composers, including Mozart, Haydn, ... 1/27/1756 - 12/5/1791 ... Wolfgang (or Wolferl, as his family called him) was a child prodigy. He composed his first piece of music at age five; he had his first piece...
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In the Footsteps of Vienna's Famous Musicians A Vienna City Walk ...  Experience Vienna, the world's capital of music, by tracing the footsteps of some of ... composers who have lived and worked here: Ludwig van Beethoven, Alban ... He was already 37 before he dared tie the knot ... savings of the former child prodigy had been exhausted. ... Behind the windows is a small 18th century theater.
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Mozart  Retracing the Footsteps of a Genius - Travel Signposts  The composer was already 25 years old, lived in Salzburg, and was in the service ... But Wolferl, the erstwhile child prodigy, had become a confident young man. ... lies a small, richly decorated 18th century theatre where concerts by the ... When Mozart passed away on 5 December 1791, the cathedral witnessed another.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Wikipedia  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five ... At the age of five, he was already composing little pieces, which he played to...
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J. S. Bach: Baroque Composer - EnchantedLearning.com  Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a Baroque composer; he was one of the ... He had over 20 children, including four who became famous musicians in their own ... His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, had been a town musician, and ... children (including Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach).
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A Grand 300 Years - Page 2 - tribunedigital-chicagotribune  Apr 9, 2000 ... 1768 -- Johann Christian Bach, another son of J.S. Bach, gives one of the ... 1779-- Muzio Clementi publishes his first piano sonatas, in London. ... plays a piano concert with his profile to the audience, establishing a precedent that ... of his first solo, the public uttered one general Ah,' " writes pianist Johann...
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Alma Deutscher - Wikipedia  Alma Elizabeth Deutscher (born Feb 2005 in Oxford) is an English composer, pianist, violinist and child prodigy. At age six she composed her first piano sonata. At age seven, she completed her first major composition, the opera The ... In a 2007 interview with the BBC, Steen said: At three she heard a lullaby by Richard...
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Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilges (The Child and the Enchantments ...  Ravel's opera L'Enfant et les sortilges captures an imaginative child's world ... after he bandages the squirrel's paw he had previously pricked with his pen. ... To celebrate, this disc of all-new Ravel recordings features one of the composers he has ... Kozena sings a vocally excellent and dramatically convincing Boy, whilst...
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The Musician's Son - Springer  public buildings, and it was accepted that, from time to time, one or other of them might come ... The musician, Vincenzio Galilei, was the same age as Cosimo de' Medici. ... had less competition there and, above all, his wife had family in the city, ... her family in Pisa, and it is tempting to imagine young Galileo overhearing.
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Top Biography - An Online Biography Resource from Top Telemedia ...  His sacred music, organ and choral works, and other instrumental music had ... not least because his son Carl Philipp Emanuel served as a court musician ... In May 1747, the composer was warmly received by King Frederick II of Prussia, for whom ... over 20 cantatas, incl. no.211, 'Coffee cantata' (c 1735), no.212, 'Peasant...
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Mozart family grand tour - Wikipedia  The Mozart family grand tour was a journey through western Europe, undertaken by Leopold Mozart, his wife Anna Maria, and their musically gifted children Maria Anna (Nannerl) and Wolfgang Amadeus from 1763 to 1766. At the start of the tour the children were aged eleven and seven respectively. ... In that year, 1762, Leopold brought the children to Munich to play before...
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Page 1 =**^ THE  MA.S T BR. *. ,:/v :.. >x .i*^. Page 2 c^a ...  music, all inclination for other things was as dead in him." Along with his ..... harpsichord by Master Mozart, who is ..... Bachmann, a clever youth, but some two years older ...... Servants Discharged .... pair. Wolfgang went to perform at the residence of the princess of. Orange. ...... Beaumarchais" Le Mariage de Figaro ".
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Frederic Chopin - Geocities  Earliest Publication: 1817, short Polonaise in G minor (all copies and original lost) ... Michael Pac, and was thus familiar with the Poles from an early age. ... By the age of seven, he became sufficiently good for his parents to try and find him a teacher. ... In the same year he so impressed the Grand Duke Constantine that he...
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Dido - Everything2.com  Dido was five when she stole her first recorder. ... A bit of a child prodigy, by the time she was 10 she played piano, violin, and the aforementioned recorder. ... that the date in which the "historical" Dido would have founded Carthage could fit in...
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Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - DSO Kids  Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer. Symphony #5 ... Dates. Born December 16, 1770 in Bonn, Germany Died March 26, 1827 in Vienna, Austria. Nationality. German ... Symphonies 1 through 9, Moonlight Sonata, Fur Elise, Fidelio, and Missa Solemnis ... He was eventually known as the greatest pianist of his time. One of...
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Johann Christian Bach - Wikipedia  Johann Christian Bach (September 5, 1735  January 1, 1782) was a composer of the Classical era, the eleventh surviving child and ... After his father's death, when Johann Christian was 15, he worked (and lived) with his second-oldest half brother Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, who was twenty-one years his senior and...
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J. S. Bach: Baroque Composer - EnchantedLearning.com  Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a Baroque composer; he was one of the ... He was one of the greatest composers of all time, but during his lifetime, he was ... He composed over 1,100 works in almost every musical genre (except opera). ... or chapel) in the court of the music-lover Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cothen.
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German Composers  In 1768 he composed his first opera, La finta semplice, for Vienna, but ... The great piano concertos and the string quartets dedicated to his "dear friend" Joseph Haydn, whom he had long admired and had first met .... The death of his brother Caspar Carl in 1815 led to a 5- year legal struggle for custody of Caspar's son Karl,...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Wikipedia  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on 27 January 1756 to Leopold Mozart ... Along with music, he taught his children languages and academic subjects. ... Mozart wrote his first symphony when he was eight years old.
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Biography: Beethoven's life - Ludwig van Beethoven's website  On March 26th 1778, at the age of 7 , Ludwig Van Beethoven gave his first ... Mozart is thought to have said don't forget his name  you will hear it .... Many thanks to Hannah SALTER for her translation of this page from French into English...