The pop star between baroque and revolution

Did you know Mozart was a freelancer? While in Vienna Mozart decided he didn’t need to take on a paid job with a wealthy patron, and set himself up as an independent composer. By playing the piano, publishing piano and violin sonatas (also for solo piano), and the occasional opera commission, he lived pretty well. He was only 25 when he moved to Vienna where he also wrote fifteen piano concertos including some of his finest works, giving him the opportunity to establish his name as both composer and pianist. Also in Vienna Mozart felt in love with Aloysia Weber, a cousin of the composer Carl Maria von Weber, but she rejected his advances. He married her sister Constanze Weber. A month before the marriage, Mozart produced his German opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio).

            

            

Articol realizat de Michele Cannone.