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35 unusual facts about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


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# "Flute Sonata in F" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) - 3:17

Alfred Piccaver

In the following three years, he sang in operas by Flotow, Verdi, Wagner, Mozart, Puccini and Gounod.

Anne Sharp

At the Royal Opera House, Sharp sang in the chorus in the first post-war production, Purcell's The Fairy Queen, then in the 1947 productions of Bizet's Carmen, Massenet's Manon and Mozart's The Magic Flute.

Bilbar Puppet Theatre

Bilbar Puppet Theatre toured extensively in Australia under the auspices of the Queensland Arts Council and other performing organisations with shows such as The Lucky Wish, Lazy Liza, Funnbyone, and a puppet version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's famous operetta, Bastien and Bastienne.

Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti

The album's title is a play on words, combining the name of the Mozart Italian-language opera Cosi fan tutte with the name of the Italian confection tutti-frutti (also the name of a Little Richard song).

Emily Anderson

Anderson published the Letters of Mozart and his family, which she herself edited and translated.

Figaro chain

The name of the chain was widely used by Italian chainmakers inspired by the operas The Barber of Seville (by Gioachino Rossini) and The Marriage of Figaro (by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart).

Fritz Strobl

In his final race on March 15, 2007, Fritz Strobl descended the Lenzerheide Super G course dressed as Mozart.

Georg Nikolaus von Nissen

He is remembered as the author of one of the first biographies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, still used today as a scholarly source on the life of this composer.

Giuseppe Fioravanti

Fioravanti's first known stage appearance was in 1817 at the Teatro del Corso in Bologna as Masetto in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni.

Greer Grimsley

He made his professional opera debut in 1980 at the Houston Grand Opera as one of the Armed Men in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute.

Haru Machibito/Camellia

"Camellia" is an uplifting upbeat song, named after the flower, and partially based on Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca and Eine kleine Nachtmusik.

Idomeneus

Idomeneo, a 1781 opera seria by Mozart, is based on the story of Idomeneus's return to Crete.

Jean Chantavoine

He published numerous books and articles, including biographies of Beethoven, Liszt, Saint-Saëns and Mozart.

Joyce Barker

She also performed in Ireland for one season with roles in The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach), The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart), and La bohème (Puccini).

Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša

During the same year, the band started collaborating with the composer Irena Popović at the BELEF festival, with whom, in 2006, the band worked on a rock opera Mozart... Luster... Lustig, covering the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Kevin Alfred Strom

Kaiser claimed that Strom was an extremely controlling husband who forced her to abstain from meat, forbade her to wear blue jeans, and predetermined her favorite music, Mozart.

Last Thing on My Mind

Pete Waterman said in 2002 the song was influenced by Mozart.

Leueen MacGrath

Born in London, England, MacGrath (pronounced mac-GRAW) began her acting career with a small role in the 1936 British film Whom the Gods Love, a biopic about Mozart and his wife Constanze.

Marzemino

The wine is most noted for its mention in the opera Don Giovanni of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ("Versa il vino! Eccellente Marzemino!").

Matthias Sindelar

Known as "The Mozart of football" or 'Der Papierene' – 'the Paper-man' for his slight build, he was renowned as one the finest pre-war footballers, known for his fantastic dribbling ability and creativity.

Norbert Smith – a Life

Mozart – Man of Music (1957), a historical costume drama.

Paul Doktor

His achievement was so remarkable that he was invited to join the Quartet in presenting a series of Mozart quintets at London's Wigmore Hall.

Perfect Harmony

The film's soundtrack includes All We Like Sheep and Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah, Franz Schubert's Ständchen in D Major and Schwanengesang, and Mozart's Laudate Dominum, as well as Vollendet ist das große Werk from Haydn's Creation.

Por una Cabeza

The starting phrase in the B section may be inspired by Mozart's Rondo for violin and orchestra in C major, K. 373.

Riksdagsmusiken

He was opposed by the nobility but supported by the burgesses and yeomanry, and the king had Kraus write the suite for this occasion, consisting of a march based on the March of the Priests from Mozart's Idomeneo, and a symphony.

Six Giants of the Wisden Century

You might as well count the notes of the music of Mozart.

Syndromes and a Century

The film was among the works commissioned for Peter Sellars' New Crowned Hope festival in Vienna to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The Best Burger in New York

Marshall's description of the taste of the best burger uses music that alludes to the 1984 film Amadeus, when Antonio Salieri describes the same music (Serenade for Winds, K. 361, 3rd movement by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) with the same passion with which Marshall speaks of the burger.

The Jakarta Symphony

The Jakarta Symphony performed Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor K. 550, Haydn's Concerto for Flute in D major, and several compositions by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Gioachino Rossini and Johann Strauss II.

The Wolfgang Press

Spin said the band claimed to have named themselves after a device that Mozart tried (unsuccessfully) to invent to type out his music.

Vergeßt Mozart

Following the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a number of those who knew him are assembled to establish the cause of his death.

Warren Christie

In the same year, he was cast as the star of the musical feature film The Magical Flute Diaries, based on one of Mozart’s operas.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Sociological and cultural aspects of Tourette syndrome – for discussion of the discredited view that Mozart had Tourette syndrome

Wordless functional analysis

Keller produced more than a dozen of these analytic scores, with the works analysed being by Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven and Benjamin Britten.


Artaserse

Mozart's aria for soprano and orchestra "Conservati fedele" (K. 23, 1765) is set to the parting verses of Mandane (Artaserse's sister) at the end of the first scene.

Bacolod Public Plaza

The gazebo is often used to house a bandstand and inscribed along the sides of the roof are the names of Western classical music composers Beethoven, Wagner, Haydn, and Mozart.

Benedicte Adrian

She has also distinguished herself as a solo artist for several years, with the role as "Queen of the Night" in Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Norwegian Opera.

Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Great Mass in C minor, Credo & Agnus Dei, Completion from original sources.

He also edited new completed performing versions of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony in b-minor, the Great Mass in C minor and the Requiem by Mozart, both based on original sources.

Bernard Haitink

Other recordings include the complete orchestral works of Debussy, the two symphonies of Elgar, the three Mozart/Da Ponte operas, and Wagner's complete opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Carlo Grante

He is known as a performer of mainstream classical composers such as Franz Liszt, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Domenico Scarlatti, as well as highly demanding late romantic and 20th-century composers such as Leopold Godowsky, Ferruccio Busoni, George Flynn, Roman Vlad, Paulo Troncon, Michael Finnissy and Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji.

Carpe Diem String Quartet

They regularly perform the works of contemporaries like Osvaldo Golijov, Gunther Schuller, Bruce Wolosoff, and Korine Fujiwara, as well as the works of classical composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Joseph Haydn and countless others.

Chevalier de Saint-George

Saint-George wrote symphonies, roughly 25 concertos for violin and orchestra, string quartets, sonatas, and songs in the style of Mozart, Haydn and the composers of the "Mannheim school".

Christopher O'Riley

O'Riley claims his renditions have introduced the music of Radiohead to a classical audience as well as introducing classical music to a wider or younger audience, as he sometimes performs both standard concert repertoire, such as Shostakovich or Mozart, and Radiohead, Elliott Smith or Nick Drake interpretations at the same concert.

Clifford Curzon

Curzon was particularly well known for his interpretations of Mozart and Schubert.

Colne Valley Youth Orchestra

Recently, the orchestra has tackled the Unfinished Symphony (No. 8 in B minor) by Schubert, Vaughan Williams' Fantasy on English Folk Songs, the Jupiter Symphony by Mozart, as well as the 'Raiders March' by John Williams, 'Pirates of the Caribbean' by Klaus Badelt.

Daniel E. Freeman

Besides his monographs, Freeman has published essays on Italian opera of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, eighteenth-century keyboard music, and the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, the Bach sons, Antonio Vivaldi, and Josquin des Prez.

Eraldo Isidori

In 2013, interwieved by journalists of the TV program Le Iene, he made another poor showing, ignoring the word eutanasia (in English euthanasia), declaring that Mozart and Beethoven were Latin American music's composers and affirming that in the Gaza Strip there is a conflict between Christians and Buddhists.

Estates Theatre

One of the Estates Theatre’s many claims to glory is its strong link with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who conducted the world premiere of his opera Don Giovanni here in October 1787.

Europeana

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, the works of Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton and the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are some of the highlights on Europeana.

Graciela Rodo Boulanger

In 1986, the Metropolitan Opera of New York commissioned her poster for Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and her paintings were shown by the Art Gallery of Lincoln Center.

Günter Wand

After several recordings of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven with the Gürzenich for a French subscription collection in the mid-1950s, he made no studio recordings for nearly two decades with the exception of an appearance with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra on Decca Records, accompanying Wilhelm Backhaus in Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto (his only recording with that orchestra).

Helge Rosvaenge

Rosvaenge appeared in a wide spectrum of roles ranging from Mozart to Weber, from Verdi to Puccini.

Henning Kraggerud

2011: Mozart: Divertimento In E Flat Major (Naxos Music), with Lars Anders Tomter (viola) & Christoph Richter (cello)

Jenny Erpenbeck

As a freelance director, she directed in 1998 different opera houses in Germany and Austria, including Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in Aachen, Acis and Galatea at the Berlin State Opera and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Zaide in Nuremberg/Erlangen.

Johann Michael Wächter

Born in Rappersdorf in Austria, Wächter sang in various church choirs in Vienna, making his stage début in 1819 at Graz as Don Giovanni in Mozart's Don Giovanni.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Working for the stage he created in 1816 a star-spangled backdrop for the appearance of the "Königin der Nacht" in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, which is even quoted in modern productions of this perennial piece.

Lutz-Michael Harder

Lutz-Michael Harder (born 1951, Langenfeld/Długoszyn near Küstrin) is a German lyric tenor known mostly for his interpretation of Mozart opera roles and as a baroque concert soloist.

Martin Babjak

He has particularly excelled in portraying roles from the operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, and Giuseppe Verdi.

Milwaukee Youth Arts Center

The nine smaller classrooms/studio spaces and two additional rehearsal/practice rooms are named after prominent figures in theater and music: Duke Ellington, Lorraine Hansberry, Gustav Mahler, Martha Graham, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare, Dmitri Shostakovich, Stephen Sondheim, Konstantin Stanislavski, Arthur Miller, and "B-3 or B-cubed," which stands for Bach, Brahms, and Beethoven.

Nicolai Gedda

A singer of unusual longevity, Gedda has been active well into his late 70s; in May 2001 he recorded the role of the Emperor Altoum in Puccini's Turandot and the role of the High Priest in Mozart's Idomeneo in June 2003.

Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin

His younger son, Emil Gottfried (1767–1792), and his daughter, Franziska (1769–1850), were friends of Mozart; Mozart wrote two songs for Gottfried to publish under Gottfried's name (K. 520 Als Luise … and K. 530 Das Traumbild) and gave piano lessons to Franziska.

Peter Katin

Katin made his debut at the Wigmore Hall on 13 December 1948 where the programme included works by Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and Chopin.

Philharmonia Quartet

Its 1945 Columbia Records 78rpm recording of the Mozart clarinet quintet with Reginald Kell (the earlier of Kell's versions) was highly praised.

Saramae Endich

Endich made her professional singing debut in July 1957 at the Tanglewood Music Festival as the soprano soloist in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Missa Solemnis with tenor John McCollum, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and conductor Charles Munch.

Schlafe, mein Prinzchen, schlaf' ein

The words are by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter and for many years the common view was that the melody was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Schlafe, mein Prinzchen, es ruhn: K. 350 (Anh. 284f; Anh. C 8.48)).

The Abduction of Figaro

It is a parody of opera in general, and the title is a play on two operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio and The Marriage of Figaro.

The Truman Show: Music from the Motion Picture

Also featured in the film are Frédéric Chopin's "Romance-Larghetto" from his first piano concerto, performed by Arthur Rubinstein, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Rondo Alla Turca" from his Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, performed by Wilhelm Kempff, Wojciech Kilar's "Father Kolbe's Preaching" performed by the Orchestra Philharmonique National de Pologne and "20th Century Boy" performed by rockabilly band The Big Six.