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...

Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice on March 4th, 1678 to Giovanni Vattista Vivaldi and his wife Camilla Calicchio. Giovanni Vivaldi was originally a barber but, like his infamous son, was intensely in love with the violin and started serving both as a violin teacher at a school and as a part of the ...

Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice on March 4th, 1678 to Giovanni Vattista Vivaldi and his wife Camilla Calicchio. Giovanni Vivaldi was originally a barber but, like his infamous son, was intensely in love with the violin and started serving both as a violin teacher at a school and as a part of t...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an 18th century Austrian classical composer, was born on January 27, 1756 at 8pm, in Salzburg, Italy. He was born to two very devoted parents, Leopold who was a composer and violinist, and Anna Maria Mozart. Together they had seven children but only two survived past one y...

The rest of the concert consisted of a requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart was born on January 27th, 1756 in Salzburg (Program Notes, 33). He was a child prodigy, as a three-year-old boy, Mozart played the clavier and composed his first piece for the instrument at the age of five. Mozart was ...

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 ...

Ludwig Van Beethoven and W.A. Mozart are the two most important musicians of their time. Their pieces are everlasting and will live on forever. Their styles are so unique and uplifting that they could never be matched. These masterminds played in the same time period but their lives differed tremend...

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...

Amadeus was a world wide profound success, receiving 8 academy awards with the help of director Milos Forman, and the producer Saul Zaenty. It's not about a famous musician and his works, but about a suffering old man, Antonio Salieri, who carries the guilt of destroying an artist of music, Wo...

Classical and Romantic Operas W. A. Mozart - "Zauberflote" and C. M. von Weber - "Der Freisschuetz" W. A. Mozart - "Zauberflote" Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg (Austria), and died in 1791 in Vienna (Austria). He was one of the first compose...

Any aspiring musician in this day and age should expect certain things from opera productions; drama, lyricism, and sensitive instrumental accompaniment. But if we observe operas written in the 16th century, we will find a very different style of vocal drama, a formality and dryness that has all bu...

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 ...

J.R.Music, Ludwig Van Beethoven and W.A. Mozart are the two most important musicians of their time. Their pieces are everlasting and will live on forever. Their styles are so unique and uplifting that they could never be matched. These masterminds played in the same time period but their lives di...

Beethoven/Mozart Music, Ludwig Van Beethoven and W.A. Mozart are the two most important musicians of their time. Their pieces are everlasting and will live on forever. Their styles are so unique and uplifting that they could never be matched. These masterminds played in the same time period but the...