WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

AMADEUS IN 1778

PERSONA

Aloysia

Since the day love settled in Wolfgang heart, his interests were transcended. From now on, desires and orders from his father became second-rate priorities: Aloysia Weber occupied the highest ones. Her marvellous voice, her charm conquered him for eternity.

SOCIETÀ

Having to explain...

In love, Wolfgang planned a journey to Italy along with the Weber family. After having infringed his inner wish, however, he bent to his father's will and set out a trip to Paris with his mother, Anna-Maria. It's in their small Parisian apartment that she would passed away.

Profits from this voyage revealed inadequate. Devastated, Leopold urged Wolfgang to return back to Salzburg and apply for a job in the Colloredo's archdiocese. Putting it mildly, such prospect was not exactly thrilling his son.

“...I wish so strongly being in a situation where I do not have to think of anyone, and that we are all well established; also, in that darkness, I totally lost sight of having to give you an account of my doings.”
Mozart

IN DIRETTA

Exasperation

The sonata for piano in A Minor (K. 310) was composed during May 1778 with a feeling of rejection.

Fifteen years earlier, Paris people overflowed in passion and praise for the young Mozart. This time they were indifferent, even inhospitable. Mozart hates Paris and the fast and agitated movement of this sonata reflects well his exasperation. Mozart is wounded and uses his musical language to express the irrevocable by means of an obsessive and strenuous rhythmic theme.

Sonata in A Minor, K. 310

KOECHEL

Music to serve friendship and love

In 1778, it is from Mannheim, Paris, and Munich that Mozart composed his works. Some of them were composed for particular people or circumstances. One of them was Aloysia Weber who was loved by Mozart.

K.212	String quartet in A Major
K.264	NLast nine variations for piano in C Major, on the air of "Lison dormait..."
K.265	Twelve variations for piano in C Major, on the air of "Ah, vous dirais-je, Maman "
K.285a	Quartet for flute, violin, viola and violoncello in G Major
K.285b	Quartet for flute, violin, viola and violoncello in C Major
K.294	Recitative in B flat Major: "Alcandro, Lo Confesso..." and Aria in E flat Major: " Non so d'Onde Viene..." - For Soprano - For Aloysia Weber
K.295	Recitative in B flat Major: "Se Al Labbro Mio..." and Aria in G Minor: "Il Cor Dolente..." - For Tenor - For Anton Raaf
K.296	Sonata No. 24 for piano and violin in C Major
K.297	Symphony No. 31 in D Major, known as "De Paris"
K.297a	Eight numbers to a "Miserere" by Holzbauer
K.297b	Sinfonia Concertante for flute (or clarinet), oboe, horn and bassoon, in E flat Major
K.299	Concerto for flute and harp in C Major, for the duke De Guisnes and his Young lady
K.299b	Orchestral music for "Les Petits Riens", Ballet of Noverre
K.301	Sonata No. 25 for piano and violin in G Major
K.302	Sonata No. 26 for piano and violin in E flat Major
K.303	Sonata No. 27 for piano and violin in C Major
K.304	Sonata No. 28 for piano and violin in E Minor
K.305	Sonata No. 29 for piano and violin in A Major
K.306	Sonata No. 30 for piano and violin in D Major
K.308	Arietta for soprano in A flat Major: " Dans un bois solitaire..." For Augusta Wendling, with accompaniment of piano
K.310	Sonata No. 8 for piano in A Minor
K.311a	Overture in B flat Major
K.313	Concerto for flute in G Major
K.315b	Dramatic Scene for the castrato Tenducci
K.315e	"Sémiramis", Melodrama
K.315f	Beginning of a Concerto Allegro for piano and violin in D Major
K.316	Recitative in C Minor: "Popoli di Tessaglia..." and Aria in C Major: "Io Non Chiedo..." for Soprano - Dramatic Scene of "Alceste", for Aloysia Weber
K.322	Kyrie in E flat Major
K.330	Sonata for piano No. 10 in C Major ( * )
K.331	Sonata for piano No. 11 in A Major ( * )
K.332	Sonata for piano No. 12 in F Major ( * )
K.333	Sonata for piano No. 13 in B flat Major ( * )
K.353	Twelve variations for piano in E flat Major, on the air of "La belle Française"
K.354	Twelve variations for piano in E flat Major, on the air "Je suis Lindor"
K.395	Prelude-Capriccio for piano in C Major, for Nannerl birthay
K.486a	Recitative in E flat Major:"Basta, Vincesti... " and Aria in D Major: "Ah, non Lasciarmi..." - for Soprano - For Dorothea Wendling

( * )	This work is traditionally referred to 1778. Today, musicologists and historians rather seem to make consensus for 1783...

CON SPIRITO

Our Wealth

“Noblemen do not marry from their inclination neither by love, but only by interest and all kinds of additional considerations; it would not be proper for people of the upper class to still love their wife after they carried out their duties and gave them a big heir. But us, poor rabble people, we are not only bound to take a woman we love and who loves us, but still we assume the right of it, we can and want to take a beautiful one, because we are neither noble, neither high born, neither gentlemen, nor rich person, but completely of low birth, malicious and poor, and, consequently we have no need for a rich woman. Our wealth dies out with us, because we have it in the head ... and that one, no man can take it from us, unless they cut our head, and in this case - - we no more need anything.”
ozart to his father, from Mannheim, February 7, 1778.

Glossaryexpressions and names used in this page

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Manheim: Town of the southwest of Germany founded in 1606 by Frederic IV. Protestants of Holland took refuge there. Manheim became a famous center of music and theatre.
Munich: City in south of Germany, established in 1158. Its name comes from a community of monks (Mönchen) established in the vicinity.

Nowadays, Munich is an industrial and commercial metropolis.
Paris: Political, cultural and tourist capital of France. Its name comes from the \"Parisii\" tribe who lived there in IIIrd century. In 1789, Paris was battling with the Revolution – which overthrown monarchy to the profit of a democratic system.
Salzburg: Salzburg counted 10,000 inhabitants, all Catholics since 1733, whereas last Lutheran Protestants had fled to Prussia. At the time of Mozart, one inhabitant of Salzburg out of five relied on the Court to survive.