Mozart Accomplishments

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Andrea Anghel The Renaissance MVP: June 7/2023 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Writing intricate symphonies, indelible operas and preeminent Classical music pieces is yet half of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s (1756- 1791) conspicuous achievements. This Austrian prolific and influential composer commenced inditing immaculately perspicacious pieces at the young age of five since he evidently showed signs of being a child virtuoso. Not only did his music become widely recognised worldwide, yet Mozart was a role model for other Classical musicians such as Chopin and Beethoven. Despite the countless struggles he had to overcome such as innumerable illnesses, …show more content…

Unlike many other Classical composers, Mozart had the ability to play a plethora of instruments such as the piano, violin, flute, harp, clarinet and trumpet. Many of his fellow musicians such as Ludwig Van Beethoven (German composer), Franz Schubert (Austrian composer), Johannes Brahms (German composer) and Gioachino Rossini (Italian composer) to name a few. They all substantially idolised his works as well as considerably admiring his general avidity and cognizance. Beethoven’s aspiration was to compose pieces just as eminent and acclaimed as Mozart’s. The deaf, German composer at times was apprehensive he would plagiarise the works of his exalted idol. Mozart’s brilliance and inspiration was vivaciously reawakened in the Classical pieces of his musical successors, attesting his influence on society. By way of explanation, his legacy continued for centuries after his demise and it still persists to exist. The Classical Era, which lasted from 1730 to roughly 1820 became a prime time period as a result of Mozart’s preeminence. In due course, although modern music is dissimilar from the style he wrote, Mozart’s the inspiration behind each note. The impactful footprint he left still remains, even to the present day. It was not effortless for Mozart to have suffered from from smallpox, tonsillitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, typhoid fever, rheumatism, and gum disease and post-streptococcal Schönlein-Henoch syndrome (renal disease) as well as depression and borderline personality disorder in the span of three and a half decades. His musical successors to a great extent admired him for his perseverance through the dark hours of his life and for continuing to create complex, awe-striking pieces of