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14 hours ago · Signature. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [a] [b] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as ...
3 days ago · Mozart occupies a unique place in the history of culture, as his output of over 600 works defined the course of classical music, and remade the face of opera. Mozart’s compositions are staples ...
Jul 3, 2024 · One of the most well-known composers of classical music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) is well represented in the print, manuscript, and digital collections of the Library's Music Division.
Jul 10, 2024 · The Academy of Ancient Music’s cycle of recordings of the complete Mozart piano concertos has changed its look several times. As designers have come and gone across the 13 volumes, album covers ...
Jul 5, 2024 · It is the most prominent use of the trombone in Mozart’s entire catalog. Requiem in D Minor, K 626, requiem mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, left incomplete at his death on December 5, 1791. Until the late 20th century the work was most often heard as it had been completed by Mozart’s student Franz Xaver Sussmayr.
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4 days ago · But while Mozart’s work is divine, his demeanor is coarse and bratty, which turns Salieri’s understandable envy into an existential rage. Three men in tuxedos hold three Academy Awards.
Jul 3, 2024 · David Plylar discusses the piano trios by Mozart, Shostakovich and Dvořák, in a lecture given before a performance of the works by the Tetzlaff-Tetzlaff-Vogt Trio at the Library of Congress. Specific works discussed include Mozart's B-flat major piano trio, K.502, Shostakovich's second piano trio in E minor, op. 67, and Dvořák's third piano trio in F minor, op. 65.
