Don Giovanni is centered around the main character, Don Ottavio, and his effects on the people surrounding him. Don Giovanni is a self-proclaimed lover who cannot resist seducing women regardless of their availability. Some of the major themes of Don Giovanni are revenge and deception. Revenge is...

Don Giovanni: Simultaneous Conflicting Emotions Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart conceals some very complicated techniques of musical emotion in his music for the stage. Among these is his ability to convey not mixed emotions, but separate, conflicting emotions and events involving multiple characters i...

In Mozart\'s time (the late 1700s), women were viewed much differently than they are viewed today. Women were perceived as being inferior (intellectually and physically) to men. Women were supposed to spend their time in the house cleaning, cooking, and taking care of the children; this was mostl...

Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart He showed passion for music at a very young age. At the age of six, young Mozart was already playing before the Austrian empress. Mozart traveled a lot but ended up in Vienna composing for Joseph II. Mozart wrote some of his greatest operas in Vienna such as Die ...

Mozart and his Opera writingConsidered one of the greatest musicians to have lived during the classical period in musical history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, Jan. 27, 1756, the son of Leopold Mozart and his wife, Anna Maria Pertl. Wolfgang came from a family that was satu...

Europe in the early and mid 18th century was marking time, trying to catch its breath after the bloody excesses of the previous century. Religious conflicts had almost wiped out the population of Germany and had split it politically. While larger nation-states were forming elsewhere, the midd...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to the talented musician Leopald Mozart on January 27th, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He demonstrated a rich talent early in his life, practicing the harpsichord at the age of three. His older sister is quoted saying that the young Mozart "often spent much time at the ...