Leopold Mozart

See also: Mozart (homonymy)

Johan Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14th 1719 - May 28th 1787) was a Compositeur, professor of Musique and Violon ist. He is especially known today like father and professor of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but was rather famous at his time.

Leopold Mozart was born the November 14th 1719 with Augsburg (today in Germany), in a family of craftsmen and bookbinders. It leaves to Salzburg to study the Droit and the Théologie, but is interested more in the music, and enters to the service of the count Thurn und Taxis as a violonist and a secretary, in 1740. In 1743, the prince-archbishop of Salzburg takes it with its service as type-setter and Master in concert. In 1747 it marries Anna Maria Pertl, which gives him seven children, of which two only survive, Maria Anna Wallburga Ignatia born in 1751 (called Nannerl) and Wolfgang Amadeus born in 1756.

In 1756, year of birth of Wolfgang Amadeus, Leopold writes his Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule (Treated for a fundamental method for the violin), a very important method of violin which will be translated in all the Europe. Today, it is one of the independent sources for the authentic execution of works of the 18th century, with the treaty of Johann Joachim Quantz Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte bridging piece zu spielen (on the Flute) and that of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen (on the play with the keyboard).

Leopold devotes its qualities of pedagog to the musical education of his two children. The exceptional gifts of his/her son decide it to organize concerts through Europe for exhiber his/her talented children. In 1763, he becomes vice-Master of vault at the court of the prince-archbishop of Salzburg. Leopold Mozart dies the May 28th 1787, in Salzburg (today in Austria).

Its most known work ( Cassation in Ground for orchestra and toys or Symphony of the toys ) was a time allotted to Joseph Haydn.

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