Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart With Madame
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart With Madame
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"Mozart with Madame Pompadour", print of painting by Vincente de Paredes, 19th century. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 - December 5, 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers. Mozart was a child prodigy 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 while visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of Mozart's death. The circumstances of his early death, at the age of 35, have been much mythologized. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence on subsequent Western art music is profound. Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, also known as Madame de Pompadour (December 29, 1721 - April 15, 1764) was a member of the French court and was the official chief mistress of Louis XV from 1745 to her death. She was a major patron of architecture and decorative arts such as porcelain. She was a patron of the philosophers of the Enlightenment, including Voltaire. Hostile critics at the time generally tarred her as a malevolent political influence, but historians are more favorable, emphasizing her successes as a patron of the arts and a champion of French pride.
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