Classical and Romantic Operas essays

Classical and Romantic Operas essays W. A. Mozart - Zauberflote and C. M. von Weber - Der Freisschuetz W. A. Mozart - Zauberflote Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg (Austria), and died in 1791 in Vienna (Austria). He was one of the first composers in Classical Era who showed new ideas in music writing. He used brighter tone, and heroic style of music, lyrical parts become brighter, but not without dramatic sketch. W. A. Mozart got his music education from his father, who was violinist and conductor. Mozart showed right away that he has all talent to become a great musician. At age six years old he was already famous in Europe. He had great technique in his playing, and a couple years later he showed his talent in his compositions. He wrote a lot of compositions, 23 of them for different solo instruments with orchestra, 49 symphonies, and more then 40 solo concertos with orchestra, sonatas for piano, violin and string ensembles. But besides all that, he spent a lot of time writing operas. He wrote his first opera at age 12 years old: in 1768 he wrote La Finta Semplice and Bastien und Bastienne1. He lived in Italy during 1769-1772, and during this time his operas were on stage in theaters, such as Mitridate re di Ponto (1770)1, and Lucio Silla(1772)1. He was very famous for his operas, especially in his small town, where life was not that easy. In 1775 he was in Munich (Germany), where I domen eo Re di Creta (1781)1 was first preformed, which brought big success to W. A. Mozart. His last ten years were the most successful years in his works. He was poor but kept on writing more and more works. He moved to Vienna and wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio(1782)1, Le Nozze di Figaro (1786)2 and Don Giovanni (1787)1 - showed very strong characteristics, true human feelings and reality. His last opera was Zauberflot...