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My book report is from the biography of Mozart written by Robert W. Gutman. It was illustrated by the Jacket art courtesy of Music Lovers Society and was published by Harcourt Brace and Company. It was printed in New York City and the year of publication was 1999.Mozart was natural in Salzburg, Austria, the give-and-take of composer, musical author, and violinist, Leopold Mozart and his wife, Anna Maria Pertl. His given names were Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Theophilus, the die of which is Gottlieb in German, and Amadeus in Latin. He used Wolfgang and Amadeus in his signature, so he is generally known by these two names. He displayed marked musical gifts very early, playing the keyboard confidently when vulcanized four, composing his first pieces for it aged five, and quickly mastering the violin. Leopold was keen to exhibit his sons extraordinary talents, along with those of his quick-witted pianist-daughter, Maria-Anna (called Nannerl) (1751--1829), and he undertook a series of tours across Europe with them when Mozart was just half-dozen years old. In 1767 the family went to Vienna for five months, where Mozart wrote an opera buffa (comic opera) for the Emperor, La finta semplice (trans, the arrive at Simpleton) and a Singspiel (a German-language opera with some spoken dialogue), Bastien und Bastienne (1769), commissioned by Dr Franz Anton Mesmer. However, in Vienna, the Italian musicians at court, including the composer Antonio Salieri, made it difficult for him to produce his operas. He returned to Salzburg, and was plant honorary Konzertmeister to Archbishop Sigismund von Schrattenbach. There learned three extended visits by father and son to Italy (1770--2). Musical experience gained on these tours helped mold Mozarts style, especially in spectacular music. He was prolific, writing sacred vocal pieces and instrumental works too. By 1772 he had written around 25 symphonies (some are lost), and his first quartets. set ahead quartets and symphon ies followed during and after a visit to Vienna in 1773, when he came into pertain with Haydns music. Between 1775--6 he composed two operas La finta Giardiniera (trans The Lady Who cloaked Herself as a Gardener) and Il Re Pastore (The Shepherd King) five... ...apellmeister of St Stephens Cathedral. His last sub works were the masonic Singspiel, Die Zauberflote (1791, The Magic Flute) an opera seria, La clemenze di Tito (1791, The favor of Tito), and a clarinet concerto for Leopolds coronation. Commissioned by an unknown stranger to compose the dirge Mass, Mozartbecame obsessed with the idea that it was for his own death, and he died before the work was consummate after a three-week fever. No convincing evidence about the arrest of death has come to light, although there has been much speculation about it. profoundly in debt at the time of his death, Mozart did not live long teeming to enjoy the financial rewards from the success of The Magic Flute, and was buried in a pau pers grave. Even though I did not get a play to read the whole entire book, I thought that Mozarts aliveness was interesting and worthwhile. He seemed a little kooky at times, however his music is very beautiful. I thought that Robert W. Gutman did a very heavy job interpreting Mozarts life. The book was a little hard to follow but it gave me much to write about him and learned more about his work.