Can you tell us everything you know about Mozart?
Wow okay so I can try??? My memory is insanely bad but ofc!!
So. I guess I'll just do a biography with like.... everything i know
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756, Salzburg, Austria. He was baptized with the name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, but he really didn't like it- in fact, most of his life he went by different names. (Gottlieb, Wolfgango Amadeo, Wolfgang Amade)
He grew up with his father (Leopold Mozart), his mother (Anna Maria Mozart), and his sister (Nannerl Mozart). He learned violin and piano at the age of 4, which his father saw potential in. Leopold being a musician, he had the ability to help him compose, writing down the notes while young Wolfgang played the pieces. At the age of 6, Mozart wrote a minuet and a trio for keyboard, the future number 1 of the Köchel catalogue.
But with his father, Leopold practically controlled Mozart's life up until his twenties. He controlled where he went, what he studied, where he stayed, and much more; but Wolfgang didn't mind, he really enjoyed the performing. He performed for the French king Louis XV and Madame Pompadour, then for the English family, where he was taught by Bachs son, Johann Christian Bach. In England, he wrote his first symphony and 40 other works.
Around the time of 1777, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 21, and was out of his fathers grasp, since he was busy with the Prince-Archbishop Colloredo. He was meant to go back to Paris with his mother, until he met Aloysia Weber, who he fell in love with; and just so happened to be the sister of his future wife, Constanze Weber. Instead, he went on a concert trip with the Webers to the Hague, which enraged his father. It didn't bring any money into the family.
In Paris 1778, Wolfgang watched his mother pass away on her deathbed. Doctors were called, but none arrived. She had grown sick as Wolfgang was unable to find work, barely any food came in, and the room they stayed in was constantly dark and cold.
In 1779, Aloysia had became famous and had rebuffed Mozart. Mozart and his music had matured around this point. He went to Vienna, where his career soon picked up once again.
In 1781, he fell in love with Constanze, but in fear of his father controlling the relationship he didnt dare tell him that he planned on marrying her. In 1782, they got married.
Mozart constantly composed. When it came to money, he was now very well off. At the time where Mozarts first son, Raimund Leopold was born, he met Joseph Haydn, who taught him how to write and compose quartets.
In 1787, Wolfgangs father died. Mozart was extremely upset. Filled with grief, and desperate for money, he set to work on his famous opera "Don Giovanni". It was an outlet for his despair to work on it; the seducer of women going to hell.
Later on in Mozarts life, the enjoyment of his music was stricken down. He never played for the fun of it, he only played for the money. When the money came in, he spent it carelessly. In 1790, Mozart went into debt once more. Nobody wanted to hear from the small unattractive man when names like "Salieri" were in high demand.
Near the end of his life when he was writing his by far most famous opera "The Magic Flute", he was most sad and lonely. His wife wasn't at his side and had been staying at a health spa. To write the opera without his source of happiness and support drove him even further into the ground.
In 1791, Mozart accepted commissions from anyone as long as they were putting down money. While in the middle of composing The Magic Flute, he had received an anonymous commission to write a Requiem. Alongside that, he had received a commission to finish an opera within 4 weeks. He was growing to be weak, more depressed every single day. His friends often wrote that he always had a glass of wine in his hand, not ever going one day without drinking. He was under so much stress, his time management had never been worse: but he needed the money.
His Requiem is often connected to Antonio Salieri, due to the famous movie "Amadeus" only making the previous rumors grow. It was believed that Salieri was the cause of his death, but in reality the two had a very professional and friendly relationship and had nothing but respect for each other. Salieri had nothing to do with the requiem, in fact, it was Count Franz Walsegg-Stuppach, a very small composer who wanted to perform it after the death of his wife and claim authorship for it.
Fortunately though, Mozart lived to see the premier of The Magic Flute, which was overwhelmingly successful. He died happy, but pretty poor. Pretty sure he was burried in a mass grave too
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