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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
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...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (mōt´särt, Ger. vôlf´gäng ämädā´ŏŏs mō´tsärt...Austrian composer, b. Salzburg. Mozart represents one of the great peaks in...perfection. Early YearsA remarkable prodigy, Mozart was taught to play the harpsichord......
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Salieri, Antonio
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......Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt. Mozart, however, distrusted him and believed...Salieri tried to poison him. Though Mozart's claim was never substantiated, an opera by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Mozart et Salieri (1898) and a play by......
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Da Ponte, Lorenzo
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......The most notable of these were for three Mozart masterpieces—The Marriage of Figaro...and A. Holden (2006); A. Steptoe, The Mozart–Da Ponte Operas (1988); M. Du Mont, The Mozart-Da Ponte Operas: An Annotated Bibliography......
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Salzburg Festival
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......cathedral square. The following year Mozart operas were added to the festival program...Vienna State Opera productions of works by Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, and Verdi directed...performed represents a broad spectrum, from Mozart to contemporary works.Performances of......
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music festivals
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......concentrates on modern music; the Mostly Mozart festival in New York City; and the Newport...Salzburg Festival began (musically) as a Mozart festival; today, however, other composers...City (notably Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival), Aspen, Colo. (see Aspen......
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Salzburg
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......cent.), a rococo castle.The composer Mozart, Salzburg's most distinguished son...for Salzburg. Part of the house where Mozart was born is now a museum, and there is...statue on the quaint little square, the Mozart Platz. Since 1920 the morality play Everyman......
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Beethoven, Ludwig van
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......that time the center of the music world. There he performed for Mozart, whom he greatly impressed.In 1792 Haydn invited...vitality, they are dominated by the tradition of Haydn and Mozart.Beginning about 1802, Beethoven's work took on new dimensions......
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serenade
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......beloved's window; outstanding is Deh, vieni alla finestra from Mozart's Don Giovanni. In the late 18th cent. the serenade became...the suite is usually designated Nachtmusik, an example being Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik. The Italian serenata, while the......
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Söderström, Elisabeth Anna
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......professional debut in 1947 at Sweden's Drottningholm Court Theater in Mozart's Bastien et Bastienne, and much later (1993–96) served...Garden. She first appeared (1959) at the Metropolitan Opera in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, singing there until 1964, from 1983......
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symphony
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......Bach, C. H. Graun, and F. J. Gossec.It was Haydn and Mozart, however, who synthesized the techniques of all preceding schools...element of personal expression far beyond the styles of Haydn and Mozart. He also initiated the use of a chorus in the symphony.After......