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Source/Further reading:
LIFE:
http://www.mozart.com/en/timeline/life/birth-family-and-childhood-salzburg-austria/
http://www.mozart.com/en/timeline/work/apollo-and-hyacinth/
W. B. M. Measor. 'Incidents in the Life of Mozart.' The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular 14, no. 322 (1869): 295�97https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3353093.pdf
Heartz, Daniel. 'Mozart and Da Ponte.' The Musical Quarterly, vol. 79, no. 4, Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 700�18http://www.jstor.org/stable/742381
Mozart and Salieri: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/dec/19/classicalmusicandopera.italy
Cause of death: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/symphony-second-opinions-mozarts-final-illness#:~:text=Mozart's%20personal%20physician%2C%20Thomas%20Franz,Frieselfieber%2C%20or%20acute%20miliary%20fever.
CREATIVE PROCESS AND STYLE:
'Mozart's Piano Music' by William Kinderman ISBN-13: 9780195100679https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195100679.001.0001/acprof-9780195100679-chapter-6
David P. Schroeder, 'Mozart's Compositional Processes and Creative Complexity'https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/bitstream/handle/10222/63147/dalrev_vol73_iss2_pp166_174.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Webster, James. 'Mozart's Operas and the Myth of Musical Unity.' Cambridge Opera Journal, vol. 2, no. 2, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 197�218,http://www.jstor.org/stable/823682
Rice, John A. 'Mozart on the Stage.' Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 152, no. 2, American Philosophical Society, 2008, pp. 179�88http://www.jstor.org/stable/25478485
https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/mozart-creative-success/
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@tocororo Says:
PonTe as. T as in Tea. 😮💨
@scotthullinger4684 Says:
Mozart is to Bach what checkers is to chess. Seize reality. Bach is the God of Music.
Don't believe me. Believe the cellist Pablo Casals.
I weep for your lack of insight. Ah, who am I kidding? No, I don't. You're incapable of grasping it. Bach was both a keyboard master, and choral master. Organ, harpsichord - any keyboard instrument. Mass, oratorio, cantata -
Moreover, a master of contrapuntal technique. TOTAL GENIUS TO THE CORE.
Mozart was merely a child prodigy who remained a child his whole life.
@Koko161081 Says:
No need to talk that fast…
@mrsx7944 Says:
He wrote a symphony at 7. Its hard to believe someone possessed that level of genius.
@robertshorthill6836 Says:
Simon's voice just bugs me. I don't have a problem with Brits voices, but something about his just annoys me. Sorry, mate.
@joel60130 Says:
Wow souls more like an English prat!
@Hofsaedter Says:
Omg do you breath between talking?
@ahotdj07 Says:
What about Mozart and Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges
@ahotdj07 Says:
Is it me or does the narrator talk too fast?
@rickydickydoodahgrimes1234 Says:
the guy im dating/my bestfriend named himself after Mozart. His name is Amadeus. I really love talking to him, and I'm watching this because he relates to Mozart so much.
Also Amadeus if you see this, hi :)
@DWHarper62 Says:
Being somewhat of a student of Mozart, I am impressed with the detail and accuracy of the biography. I am very appreciative of the effort to correct the abomination of the movie that was Amadeus...
@MollyR6 Says:
Hey mom can we watch Vsauce, No we have Vsauce at home. Vsauce at home:
@nellymendiola8439 Says:
Intersting all his biography but MAN YOU SPEAK TOO FAST.
@metalmachine4433 Says:
The thing is, between musicians it is actually Bach or Haydn who we call greatest composers. It's not like Mozart wasn't a mega genious, but those who are experienced enough can see who were the greatest among all of them
@Rico-Suave_ Says:
Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 20:34
@asanaliw306 Says:
the miserere story is a myth
@Princesslara25 Says:
Mozart died on 5th Dec 1791.
@Rico-Suave_ Says:
Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 20:02
@timmylochhead7865 Says:
The Austrian 18th century Elvis
@josephyodiceyodice5990 Says:
The movie Amadeus was
great. His wife stole the
show: "Wolfie" !
@jamelporter6974 Says:
Love is biography ❤❤✊🏿💯‼️
@callsigns2024 Says:
Misery? Sally-airy? Webber? Even Wolfgang is mispronounced!!
@lucascarson6526 Says:
Falco brought me here
@ChrisFarrell Says:
For those of us who play clarinet, Mozart is revered for bringing the clarinet into the orchestra. Two pieces written very close to the end of his life, the Clarinet Concerto K.622 and the Quintet K.581 are the first truly great works for the instrument, and remain among the greatest works ever written for it. The clarinet concerto is still probably the most-performed clarinet work, although that may be changing a bit as orchestras try to drag themselves out of the ditch they drove into in the 20th century. Mozart also used the basset horn (basically an alto clarinet) extensively, notably in the Requiem. Anyway, the clarinet was the last major addition to the orchestra, and without Mozart and his brilliant writing and great affection for it, who knows when or if it would have been included. Perhaps now in the orchestra there would be no clarinets and only saxophones. Not the worst thing in the world perhaps, but not the same.
@yaraviera4444 Says:
They should make a movie of him
@peterrobertbowers7639 Says:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart may have been branded as a genius; but no one ever mentions his Sister.. Anna Maria ( Nannerl)
She was even more talented in playing musical instruments and writing music than he was.
Female composers were not allowed to publish their music; so Nannerl mingled a lot of her compositions in with her brothers. How very convenient. Sexism still exists today… as it did back then in their time.
Tuesday pm 18th April 2023. 🏴
@noahtheguy1828 Says:
Fun fact: Beethoven actually met Mozart in 1786. In fact Mozart was so impressed with Beethovens playing that he said, “watch out for this boy, one day he will give the world something to talk about”.
@NidusFormicarum Says:
Well, he might well have improvised a "concert" at the age of 4, but in that case it was not really what an adult would call a concert, but vivid music with elements of the music of his time. His first known composition was composed three days before the age of 5 and at the age of 5 and 6 he composed several minuets of which some later put together as a minuets with trios as well as several other short pieces for piano. At the age of 6 to 8 he composed several sonatas for piano with accompaining violin. He wrote his first italian sinfonia at the age of 8, but he had almost certainly recieved some help with it from his father.
@NidusFormicarum Says:
As testified by his wife after his death, he used to walk like a lost soal for an hour or a couple of hours and no one was allowed to talk to him because he was fullt concentrated. Once he finished, he sat down and wrote down the principle voices - in a orchestra that means mainly the first violin and the bass line. By that time, his wife could talk to him, because writing the music down was ruotine work. After that he went back and completed the score with the remaining voices that he had not yet decided how to do with in detail. But that too, was ruotine, almost like when a painter completes a painting. He travlled a lot and moved many times. He often wrote music while travelling in his carrige. When he had access to a piano, he used that too though. He made very few scetches when he was very young, but when he wrote more complicated passages and he became more experienced with age, he prepared himself and made more scetches on papper.
@jasonroberts6666 Says:
Mozart didn't need a piano to compose. He wrote the Linz symphony in a stage coach on the way to Linz in only 3 or 4 days. There are other accounts of Mozart writing masterpieces with no instruments around. Only his great mind and a pen.
@Toyotuti Says:
Cliff burton better
@jasonroberts6666 Says:
I believe Mozart was the voice of God...I always will.
@johnny-ko4mm Says:
Did he invent the double feature?
@sangamtamang01 Says:
8:15 sounds rap
@sixwaveholddown Says:
For those wondering 100 guilders is about $6,000 is US currency.
@briandoss9232 Says:
Glad I would never live a life style of drinking and partying.
@DukeontheLake Says:
Well done!
@davidlanfair Says:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart #1
@edeliteedelite1961 Says:
What's the music at the end?
@rogermansour6085 Says:
Modern day Mozart's. Rick Wakeman YES, Keith Emerson ELP, PROCOL HARUM, Genesis,Moody blues, Paul McCartney The Beatles, David Bowie, Elton John, Pink Floyd
@DerVersteherPlus Says:
1:01 Wolfgang Amadeus was born in Salzburg in the Holy Roman Empire was is today Austria. Back in Mozart times it was part of the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg.
@StephenLuke Says:
RIP
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791)
@musriffvigneshaviraj6952 Says:
Can you make a video on Ludwig van Beethoven
@donovanreimer2324 Says:
Talking too fast. Can’t enjoy.
@loganfruchtman953 Says:
Please do a video about Beethoven
@StrychnosToxifera Says:
After Wagner and Mozart I think it's Bach's turn 😅
@boondockinnrockin5184 Says:
I like how both parents death are at commercial breaks. It gives pause well done.
@r.casagrande8689 Says:
After Jesus his the number 2 for me.
@rheinhardtgrafvonthiesenha8185 Says:
I don’t feel like this put enough emphasis on his sheer genius and virtuosity. On a few occasions Simon specifically mentions what he got he got from practice and co at any study and refinement. As if there’s 3 other people in history that could work nonstop at it for a thousand years and be half of Mozart. I mean it’s a great message and I know he did work. So many people squander talent and others work their asses off and just don’t really have it. He had both for sure but I’m 100% sure that the thing that sets Mozart apart from most musicians wasn’t his work ethic so much as his talent. I don’t believe I actually had to write that lol
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