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Eine kleine Nachtmusik. For the British electronic music DJ and producer also known as Eine Kleine Nacht Musik, see Riton (musician). Eine kleine Nachtmusik[ a ] ( Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major ), K. 525, is a 1787 composition for a chamber ensemble by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). The German title means "a little night music".
Mozart effect. The Mozart effect is the theory that listening to the music of Mozart may temporarily boost scores on one portion of an IQ test. Popular science versions of the theory make the claim that "listening to Mozart makes you smarter" or that early childhood exposure to classical music has a beneficial effect on mental development. [ 1]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) was a prolific composer and wrote in many genres. Perhaps his best-admired work is in opera, piano concerto, piano sonata, symphony, string quartet, and string quintet. Mozart also wrote many violin sonatas, and other forms of chamber music, violin concertos, and other concertos for one or more solo ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart[ a ][ b ] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed his Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551, on 10 August 1788. [ 1] The longest and last symphony that he composed, it is regarded by many critics as among the greatest symphonies in classical music. [ 2][ 3] The work is nicknamed the Jupiter Symphony, probably coined by the impresario Johann Peter Salomon. [ 4]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's concertos for piano and orchestra are numbered from 1 to 27. The first four numbered concertos and three unnumbered concertos are early works that are arrangements of keyboard sonatas by various contemporary composers. Concertos 7 and 10 are compositions for three and two pianos respectively.
1 May 1786 (1786-05-01) Burgtheater, Vienna. The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro, pronounced [le ˈnɔttse di ˈfiːɡaro] ⓘ ), K. 492, is a commedia per musica ( opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in ...
Though the term "classical music" includes all Western art music from the Medieval era to the early 2010s, the Classical Era was the period of Western art music from the 1750s to the early 1820s [76] —the era of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, and Ludwig van Beethoven.