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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756 – 1791
Child Mozart (1763)
The Mozart family on tour: Leopold, Wolfgang, and
Nannerl. Watercolor by Carmontelle, ca. 1763
Wolfgang Mozart
Some interesting facts:
• The most complete musical genius; He was competent on keyboard and violin by age
five, and he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty.
• Mozart, although a genius, also enjoyed a very simple little song that you all know. He
liked to have fun with music, “play around” with it
• Wrote “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”, at age 5
• Fun Facts:
• He could write music before he could write words
• He was also good at math and spoke some different languages
• Many people did not believe young Mozart could play/compose such beautiful
music
• He wrote half the number of symphonies he had ever wrote from the ages of 8-19
• If you listen to his all his music he has ever made for 8 hours a day, it would take
you almost 1,500 years to listen to it all
• After only hearing a piece of music once, he could play it perfect without the
music
• People nicknamed Mozart Wolfie through his life
• Mozart was really short for his age
• He composed more than 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic,
concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music
The Sonata
How to identify a Sonata: There are three things about a sonata that are special.
• First it is written just for an instrument or instruments. It is never sung.
• Second, a sonata is almost like several different songs with the same title. A sonata is
very much like some reading books. There are a lots of separate, short stories or
sections but there is only one title for the book. A sonata has 2 or more parts, but
usually they have 3.
• The third thing about sonata is that it has some surprises. Imagine a pianist begins to
play a piece; he performs it well and then stops, with his hands on the keys. What
would you do? Applaud…
There is the surprise! A sonata has three completely different pieces of music in one with a
stop in between parts. One way to know what to do is by watching the pianist. Usually,
they do not remove their hands from the keyboard until the whole sonata is finished.
Parts & Tempos to Sonata in C Major:
• The notes in the first piece within this sonata are like running feet because they are
played rapidly. The word the composer writes over the music to let the pianist know
that the notes should be played fast is ALLEGRO.
• The second part, Andante is slower, more like just walking down the street, not being in
a hurry.
• The third part of a sonata, Allegretto (jogging), is not as fast as the first, running Allegro,
but faster than the walking Andante.
Mozart K545 Sonata in C major (complete)
Thomas Gainsborough
1727-1788
Self-portrait (1759)
Thomas Gainsborough
Some interesting facts:
• One of nine children, young Tom enjoyed tramping about the countryside, sketching
clouds, roads, trees, or whatever he saw
• His father send him to London to study art at the age of 13
• He enjoyed painting landscapes, but they rarely sold
• Gainsborough was hired by local art dealers to repair old paintings; fixing old painting
gave him the chance to study the techniques and styles of the old masters.
• He concentrated on the painting of portraits, influenced by Jan Van Eyck
• He worked to perfect his techniques, and his recognition grew, became one of the
favorite portrait painters among the wealthy including the royal family
• He also began to work landscapes into the backgrounds of some of the portraits that he
painted
• He was enormously successful during his lifetime, painting over 700 portraits in his
individualistic and independent style.
The Blue Boy
(Jonathan Buttall)
By Thomas Gainsborough (1770)
An oil on canvas
King George III
Queen Charlotte
Portrait of Anne, 1777–1778
Landscape in Suffolk (1748)
By Thomas Gainsborough
Cottage Girl with dog and pitcher, 1777–1778
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