Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Classical Austrian composer
An AI built from 7 public sources about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's work. It is not Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and is not endorsed by them.
Shape a piece of work the way Mozart's letters describe his craft: fit it to the performer and the room, keep it clear, short and good, let feeling run strong without hurting the ear, and adapt to any style.
Big ideas
- Music must please the ear, even at its most violent: Writing to his father in September 1781 about Osmin, the furious overseer in The Abduction, Mozart said that passion, however strong, must never be expressed so as to disgust.
- Write for both the expert and the casual listener: In December 1782 he described the piano concertos he was writing for his subscription concerts as a happy medium between too easy and too difficult.
- In opera, the words serve the music: In October 1781 Mozart wrote that in an opera, poetry must be the obedient daughter of music .
- Fit the work to the performer: Mozart shaped music to the people who would play or sing it.
- Time is the heart of performance: In 1777 Mozart called time, meaning steady tempo, the principal thing in music, criticising a young player who couldn't keep it.
- Adapt to any style, then make it yours: Mozart learned wherever he went: Italian opera, the Mannheim orchestra, J.
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- Writing for a real person: Shape a piece to the voice, hands or taste of the person who will use it.
- Pleasing experts and beginners at once: Aim between too easy and too difficult, with a plain surface and a few touches for those who know.
- Pacing and timing: Find the steady beat under a talk, a launch or a piece of writing.
- Cutting for length: Make it short and good, and take out what crowds the main idea.
- Feeling without offence: Put anger, grief or tension on the page without hurting the reader.
- Learning a new style fast: Study the masters of a field, then make it yours.
- Freelance or employed: Decide whether to leave a post that holds your talent back, and what the sums say first.
- Pricing your time: Choose fewer clients who pay well, billed by the month, over many who pay badly.
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Built from
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Wikipedia
- The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Volume 1, 1769 to 1780 (edited by Ludwig Nohl, translated by Lady Wallace, 1866; Project Gutenberg eBook #5307), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words (compiled by Friedrich Kerst, translated by Henry Edward Krehbiel, 1905; Project Gutenberg eBook #4042), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Requiem (Mozart), Wikipedia
- Leopold Mozart, Wikipedia
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (sourced statements from his letters, with dates), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, compiled by Wikiquote
- The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791), Volume II (collected by Ludwig Nohl, translated by Lady Wallace, 1866; the Vienna years from March 1781), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart