Although he did not introduce new forms, he enriched the prevailing German style with a robust contrapuntal technique, an unrivalled control of harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. – 28 July 1750, N.S.) was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. Johann Sebastian Bach (21 March 1685, O.S.31 March 1685, N.S. Beethoven wrote his own early compositions in the shadow of Mozart, of whom Joseph Haydn wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years." Mozart learned voraciously from others, and developed a brilliance and maturity of style that encompassed the light and graceful along with the dark and passionate-the whole informed by a vision of humanity "redeemed through art, forgiven, and reconciled with nature and the absolute." His influence on subsequent Western art music is profound. He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons. The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized.
During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and the Requiem. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty at 17 he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German:, full baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. It has been said that the paths of all of the famous violinist-composers of 18th-century Italy led to Arcangelo Corelli who was their "iconic point of reference." (Toussaint Loviko, in the program notes to Italian Violin Concertos, Veritas, 2003) The style of execution introduced by Corelli and preserved by his pupils, such as Francesco Geminiani, Pietro Locatelli, and many others, was of vital importance for the development of violin playing. His visit to Naples, at the invitation of the king, took place in the same year. In 1708 he returned to Rome, living in the palace of Cardinal Ottoboni. From 1689 to 1690 he was in Modena the Duke of Modena was generous to him. In 1685 Corelli was in Rome, where he led the festival performances of music for Queen Christina of Sweden, and he was also a favorite of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, grandnephew of another Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, who in 1689 became Pope Alexander VIII.
In 1681 he was in the service of the electoral prince of Bavaria between 16 he spent a considerable time in the house of his friend and fellow violinist-composer Cristiano Farinelli (believed to be the uncle of the celebrated castrato Farinelli). He gained his first major success in Paris at the age of nineteen, and to this he owed his European reputation. Matteo Simonelli, the well-known singer of the pope’s chapel, taught him composition. His master on the violin was Giovanni Battista Bassani. Arcangelo Corelli (17 February 1653 – 8 January 1713) was an Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music.Ĭorelli was born at Fusignano, in the current-day province of Ravenna, although at the time it was in the province of Ferrara.