Mozart's decision to secure his dismissal from the service of the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg was influenced by reforms in church liturgy and restrictions on leaves of absence.
Composer Biography
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's father, Leopold Mozart, published an important book on violin-playing in the same year his son was born.
Composition History
The Jupiter Symphony (Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551) is the last of three symphonies Mozart wrote in a few weeks during the summer of 1788.
Composer Biography
Mozart's opera The Magic Flute was enjoying enormous success at the time of his death in 1791.
Composer Biography
Leopold Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's father, was a composer to the court and later deputy Kapellmeister for the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg.
Compositional Technique
The Jupiter Symphony's final movement features a remarkable series of canonic imitations in the coda, where instruments imitate thematic fragments from earlier in the movement.
Composition History
The Symphony No. 28 in C Major, K. 200, was completed either in November 1773 or in 1774, possibly after the better known A major Symphony, K. 201.
