Transcript mozart Biograpy

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Composer Ludwig van Beethoven was
baptized on December 17, 1770, in Bonn,
Germany. He was an innovator, widening
the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto
and quartet, and combining vocals and
instruments in a new way. His personal
life was marked by a struggle against
deafness, and some of his most
important works were composed during
the last 10 years of his life, when he was
quite unable to hear. He died in 1827 at
the age of 56.
Franz Joseph Haydn was among the
creators of the fundamental genres of
classical music, and his influence upon
later composers is immense. Haydn’s
most celebrated pupil was Ludwig van
Beethoven, and his musical form casts a
huge shadow over the music of
subsequent composers such as
Schubert, Mendelssohn and Brahms.
Franz Liszt was born on October 22,
1811, in Raiding, Hungary [now
Raiding, Austria]. His father, a multiinstrumentalist, taught him to play
piano. By the time Liszt was 9 years
old, he was performing in concert
halls. As an adult, he toured
extensively throughout Europe. He
had an affair and children with Marie
díAgoult, and later lived with Princess
Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein. By his
death, he had written more than 700
compositions.
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Born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart was a musician capable of playing multiple
instruments who started playing in public at the age of 6.
Over the years, Mozart aligned himself with a variety of
European venues and patrons, composing hundreds of
works that included sonatas, symphonies, masses, chamber
music, concertos and operas, marked by vivid emotion and
sophisticated textures.
Born on March 31, 1685 (N.S.), in Eisenach, Thuringia,
Germany, Johann Sebastian Bach had a prestigious
musical lineage and took on various organist positions
during the early 18th century, creating famous
compositions like "Toccata and Fugue in D minor." Some
of his best-known compositions are the "Mass in B
Minor," the "Brandenburg Concertos" and "The WellTempered Clavier." Bach died in Leipzig, Germany, on
July 28, 1750. Today, he is considered one of the
greatest Western composers of all time.