eustace j. breakspeare - mozart (1902)

* TH» • MA.5 T HP- jj/ \V MU9ICIANJ ^ CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY MUSIC Cornell University Library ML 410.M93B82 Mozart, 3 1924 017 093 562 Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924017093562 [...]... Facsimile of a Portion of a Letter written BY Mozart on the Death of his Mother Mozart' s " Zauberflote " Cottage By permission of the Salzburg Mozart facing 84 Museum Portrait of Mozart (Jrom an engraving by C Kohl) 53 in 1793 facing 148 Illustrations PAGE Room in which Mozart was born By permission of the Salzburg Mozart facing 176 Museum Portrait of Mozart, painted at Vienna, 1770, WHEN about... rather Johannespedantic, unwieldy string of baptismal names, Chrysostomus-Wolfgangus-Theophilus The parents of this child were Johannes Georg Leopold Mozart, and his wife Anna Maria {nie Pertl, or PertUn) ; the said Mozart being one of the musicians in the service of the ruling The prince-archbishop of Salzburg and its province — Mozart family, so far back as can be traced, belonged to Augsburg 1 ; and... Age facing 210 By permission of the Salzburg Mozart Museum Facsimile of First Page of "Das Veilchen" 226 Portrait of Mozart at the Age of Eleven (^from the original by T Helbling) By permission of the Salzburg Mozart facing 234 Museum Portrait of Constance Mozart nh Weber {from a painting, in 1802, by Hans Hansen) facing 238 By permission of the Salzburg Mozart Museum Biographical It was in the old,... reception at Versailles — Hagenhauer was at the same time Mozart' s landlord the lessee of the house, No 9 Getreldegasse Here the family Mozart rented an apartment " am dritten Stock " (3rd story) The " Mozart- Museum " ^ has now its location here Louis is Among unfortunately missing lections of this visit is XV sister that of the Marianne's recol- Pompadour {la belle marquise) pprching her little brother.. .Mozart By Eustace -B^eakspeare J Author of ' Essays on " Musical Esthetics " &c With Illustrations London: J New York : and Portraits M Dent E P Button 1902 & & Co Co Preface Of the few noteworthy treatises relating to Mozart and work that are accessible to the English reader, the most important is far too bulky... birthday, at half-past nine at night." And, at length, papa writes down the little musician's own original attempts, as before mentioned, and appends the " By following certificate to No i of such compositions Wolfgang Mozart, nth May, 1762." (And it is in this : same book that the youthful Mozart pens his first more important compositions, the Sonatas, published in 1763.) The child Mozart was of an... actors and singers; and this event is notable as the first of Mozart' s apmusic, — — Mozart pearances in public There was a representation of the play on the ist September, and again on the 3rd of the same month; our little chorister would be about and a half years old at this time Naturally enough, the elder Mozart, with two extraordinarily-gifted children to exhibit and not to speak of his own attractions... Appendix VI 269 Appendix VII 293 List of Illustrations Salzburg, Birthplace Kreuzberg of Mozart, from the {Photogravure) Frontispiece Portrait of Mozart at Six Years of Age, in a Gala Dress given him by the Empress Maria Theresa By (Photogravure) permission of the Salzburg Mozart facing 8 Museum Portrait of Mozart at the Age of Fourteen {Jrom an engraving by H Adlard of a painting by Battoni)... and informing the reader in the first place, by a summary of the great master-musician's life-story; and, nextly, by some account of his chief and (in their respective classes) variedly representative compositions It has been my care throughout to make the style of treatment as agreeable and, therefore, as untechnical and non -academical : — — as possible As regards opinion, I claim to have been independent... leading instrument No wonder, then, that Leopold Mozart' s gifted son early becomes the " talk " of Salzburg It appears to have been customary, at the collegeschool (or "Gymnasium," as it was called) of Salzburg, to close the educational year with a performance of some In pdramatic piece in Latin, set to music " fj i /- 1761, a Latin comedy, "Sigismundus Hun-^" garise Rex" with music by Eberlin, the court . baptismal names, — Johannes- Chrysostomus-Wolfgangus-Theophilus. The parents of this child were Johannes Georg Leopold Mozart, and his wife Anna Maria {nie Pertl, or PertUn) ; the said Mozart being. class="bi x0 y0 w1 hb" alt="" Edited by FREDERICK J. CROWEST All rights reserved