MOZART BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
Friday, 20 January 2012 03:11
Seattle Symphony
Saturday, January 21
9:30am & 10:30am
Benaroya Hall
200 University Street
Seattle, WA
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791)
My first real introduction to Mozart and his music was the movie AMADEUS. I was so fascinated by the movie story and his music that I have since read many books on the life of Mozart. His life and times had all the dramatic elements which make for thoughtful consideration.
I am always curious about the person behind the story of people from the past. Wikipedia summarizes the appearance and character of Mozart as follows:
“Mozart's physical appearance was described by tenor Michael Kelly, in his Reminiscences: "a remarkably small man, very thin and pale, with a profusion of fine, fair hair of which he was rather vain". As his early biographer Niemetschek wrote, "there was nothing special about [his] physique. [...] He was small and his countenance, except for his large intense eyes, gave no signs of his genius." His facial complexion was pitted, a reminder of his childhood case of smallpox. His nose was "large" and "aquiline"[70] and “became so prominent a feature in the last years of his life...that a scribber in one of the journals of the day, the Morgenblatter of Vienna, honoured him with the epithet 'enourmous-nosed.'"[71] He loved elegant clothing. Kelly remembered him at a rehearsal: "[He] was on the stage with his crimson pelisse and gold-laced cocked hat, giving the time of the music to the orchestra." Of his voice his wife later wrote that it "was a tenor, rather soft in speaking and delicate in singing, but when anything excited him, or it became necessary to exert it, it was both powerful and energetic".[72]” Thank you Wikipedia.
This and much more is available to give a person a more complete understanding of what life was like for Mozart and others who lived during in 18th century Europe. To better understand the remarkable Mozart and the work he produced, study and ponder the world in which he lived and worked.
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Happy Birthday My Dear Mozart.
Belva & The Bearded One
