Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart

Born: 27 January 1756, Salzburg (Austria)
Died: 5 December 1791, Wien (Austria)

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Mozart news

• Oil painting found to represent Mozart
  (18 March 2008)
  

  An oil painting, which was originally owned by the Austrian family of Johann Lorenz Hagenauer, is now identified to represent Wolgang Amadeus Mozart.

  Professor Cliff Eisen of King’s College London’s department of music has authenticated the work. Mozart is shown in profile, and wears a red jacket that he once described in detail in one of his letters.

  
  It is believed that the work was painted by Joseph Hickel around 1783. Hickel was a painter to the Imperial Court of Austria.

  The portrait was bought in 2005 by an American collector, who was unaware of its significance.

  [source: www.kcl.ac.uk]

• One page of Mozart sold for £110,900
  (5 December 2007)
  

  In an auction at Sotheby's, London, a single folio of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra, was sold for an amazing £110,900 (appr. $225,000). The folio shows a cadenza of the composition, which was written in 1779.

  It has been decades since the folio had been seen in public. The item was bought by a privat buyer.

  [sources: www.sothebys.com, bbc.co.uk]

• Composition by young Mozart found
  (28 December 2006)
  

  The Austrian broadcasting corporation ÖRF has announced that an unknown piano score by the young Wolfgang Amadeus has been found back in Salzburg. Clavichordist Florian Birsak will play the piece on Friday. Experts have examined the compsosition closely, and find it very likely that Mozart was indeed the composer. The "Allegro di Wolfgango Mozart", as it was labeled, was written when he was between six and 10 years old. There is an other piece that is possibly also Mozart's.

  [source: news.yahoo.com]

• All Mozart scores for free
  (18 December 2006)
  

  On the edge of this Mozart year, the Mozarteum has announced that the complete scores of Wolfgang Amadeus are now available as free PDF downloads from their web site. The edition they offer is the "Neue Mozart-Ausgabe".

  [source: dme.mozarteum.at]

• Photograph from 1840 shows Mozart's widow
  (7 July 2006)
  

  The only photograph ever taken of Mozart's widow Constanze, was found back in the town archives of a Bavarian city. The daguerreotype was taken at the home of the Swiss composer Max Keller in 1840. Constanze then was 78 years old. Two years later she died. The found photograph is a 19th century copy of the original daguerreotype. When Mozart died at the age of 35, Constanze was only 29. She later married the Danish diplomat Nissen. The image shown here is just the fragment of the original photo that shows Constanze. [source: news.bbc.co.uk]

• More mysteries on Mozart's skull
  (16 January 2006)
  

  It is now seems clear that we will probably never know whether the skull that was said to be Mozart's is real. A DNA sample of the skull was compared to samples of bones from his grandmother Euphrosina Pertl and his niece Jeanette Berchtold zu Sonnenburg. However, none of these samples appeared to be related! Because of the unclear history of the skull, which is said to be the one of the famous composer, experts tend to believe that it is very likely not authentic.

• Another Mozart portrait shows up in Switzerland
  (13 December 2005)
  

  This week it was announced that two 18th century miniature portraits were discovered in a hotel in Thun, Switzerland. The small paintings possibly show Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with on the other side his sister Nannerl. The portraits were painted in Vienna, between 1765 and 1770. In 1768 Wolfgang (then 12) and Nannerl (17) were in Vienna with their father. See the Mozart page for a copy of the miniature.

• New painting of Mozart discovered
  (3 March 2005)
  

  In early 2005 it was announced that an until now unknown painting of Mozart was discovered in the Gemälde Galerie in Berlin, Germany. There is a photo of this picture on my Mozart page.

Music

Köchel’s Catalogue of Mozart compositions

(This list was downloaded from ftp://ftp.gmd.de/. I slightly edited it to make it more readable. I also corrected some obvious mistakes and added a little extra info. <js>)

The numbering of the works generally used for reference, to avoid confusion, is that of Köchel’s Thematic Catalogue before the revision and renumbering by Alfred Einstein in 1937 in the light of later research. The dates, however, are here corrected according to Einstein, and therefore occasionally appear in altered sequence (some dates remain conjectural). Those who wish to pursue further "fragmentary", "copied", "doubtful", "spurious", or "lost" items are referred to the exhaustive (and scholarly) Köchel–Einstein appendix.

Biography

Son of Leopold, father of Franz Xaver.