I have done some research on Mozart’s life to see if I can come up with any shapes which will symbolise his life and will be easy for a viewer to understand the meaning of them.
Here’s a short biography:
- 27.01.1756 – Mozart born in Salzburg
- 1761 – first compositions (small Andante (K. 1a) and Allegro (K. 1b) )
- He had 6 siblings, only him and one sister survived, rest of the siblings died
- 1762 – first trip to Munich, Vienna, Prague
- 1764-5 – met + visited Johann Christian Bach in London
- 1767-8 – Mozart family went back to Vienna
- 1769-73 – three trips to Italy; new compositions:
- an opera Mitridate Rè di Ponto (1770
- Ascanio in Alba (1771)
- Lucio Silla (1772)
- the solo cantata “Exsultate, jubilate”, K. 165 (1772-3)
- 1773 – working as a court musician in Salzburg
- 12 & 18.06.1778 – performance of “A Minor” piano sonata and “Paris” symphony
- 1781 – moved to Vienna
- 08.1782 – married to Constanze Weber
- 1782–1785 – series of concerts as soloist in his own piano concertos.
- 1786-7 – return to opera
- 1788-91 – Austro-Turkish War- difficult time for musicians, including Mozart
- 1791 – last year of his life and some of the most famous compositions:
- the opera The Magic Flute
- the final piano concerto (K. 595 in B flat)
- the Clarinet Concerto K. 622
- revised version of his 40th Symphony
- motet Ave verum corpus K. 618
- unfinished Requiem – his very last creation
- 05.12.1971 – Mozart dies in Vienna
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