{"slug": "wolfgang-amadeus-mozart", "label": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254", "qid": "Q254", "description": "Austrian composer of the Classical period (1756-1791)", "entries": 40, "years": 27, "span": [1719, 1937], "span_label": ["1719 CE", "1937 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 25}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 6}, {"title": "Births", "count": 4}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 3}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 2}], "also_known_as": ["Mozart", "W. A. 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Leopold Mozart took seven year old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister Maria Anna Mozart on a Western Europe tour to perform in front of royalty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366010306#Events", "title": "1763 in Austria", "revid": 1366010306, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1763, "year_label": "1763 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 9", "text": "July 9 – The Mozart family grand tour of Europe began, lifting the profile of child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360202149#July–September", "title": "1763", "revid": 1360202149, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1764, "year_label": "1764 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 23", "text": "23 April – Mozart family grand tour: 8-year-old W. A. Mozart settles in London for a year where he composes his Symphony No. 1.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374050715#Events", "title": "1764 in Great Britain", "revid": 1374050715, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1764, "year_label": "1764 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 27", "text": "April 27 – Eight-year-old child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart performs a private concert before King George III and Queen Charlotte in Great Britain, and has an encore on May 19.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363539304#January–June", "title": "1764", "revid": 1363539304, "section": "Events › January–June"}}, {"year": 1766, "year_label": "1766 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "November 29", "text": "November 29 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart returns to Salzburg, after the Mozart family grand tour of Europe.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358061260#October–December", "title": "1766", "revid": 1358061260, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1769, "year_label": "1769 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 4", "text": "March 4 – Mozart departs Italy, after the last of his three tours there.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354215144#January–March", "title": "1769", "revid": 1354215144, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1771, "year_label": "1771 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "October 17", "text": "October 17 – The opera Ascanio in Alba by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15, premieres in Milan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363214109#October–December", "title": "1771", "revid": 1363214109, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1775, "year_label": "1775 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart writes his five violin concertos in Salzburg at about this date.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365589248#Date_unknown", "title": "1775", "revid": 1365589248, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1775, "year_label": "1775 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 5", "text": "January 5 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart finishes a Sonata for Keyboard in C.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365589248#January–June", "title": "1775", "revid": 1365589248, "section": "Events › January–June"}}, {"year": 1776, "year_label": "1776 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 21", "text": "July 21 – Mozart's Serenade No. 7 (the \"Haffner\") is first performed in Salzburg, Austria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365773863#July–August", "title": "1776", "revid": 1365773863, "section": "Events › July–August"}}, {"year": 1778, "year_label": "1778 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 3", "text": "July 3 – Anna Maria Mozart, Austrian mother to the Mozarts (b. 1720)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371073991#Deaths", "title": "1778", "revid": 1371073991, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1781, "year_label": "1781 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 16", "text": "March 16 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrives in Vienna after being fired by the Archbishop of Salzburg. 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"section": "Culture & Society", "date": "October 17", "text": "October 17 – Mozart's Great Mass is first performed, in Salzburg, Austria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370056030#October–December", "title": "1783", "revid": 1370056030, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1785, "year_label": "1785 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Mozart's \"Haydn\" String Quartets are published, as is his collaboration with Salieri and a third, unknown composer, Cornetti, Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370566385#Date_unknown", "title": "1785", "revid": 1370566385, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1786, "year_label": "1786 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 1", "text": "May 1 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro premieres in Vienna.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370552329#April–June", 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"August 10", "text": "August 10 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Vienna, completes his final symphony, the Symphony No. 41 in C Major, and nicknamed (after his death) The Jupiter.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357260814#July–September", "title": "1788", "revid": 1357260814, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1790, "year_label": "1790 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 26", "text": "January 26 – Mozart's opera Così fan tutte premieres in Vienna.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361336081#January–March", "title": "1790", "revid": 1361336081, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1791, "year_label": "1791 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "September 6", "text": "September 6 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera seria, La clemenza di Tito, premières at the Estates Theatre in Prague with Mozart conducting to mark the coronation of Leopold II as King of Bohemia.", "cite": {"url": 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"Deaths", "date": "December 5", "text": "December 5 – Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies early this morning aged 35 at his home in Vienna, having been bedridden since November 20 with a serious illness, perhaps acute rheumatic fever. On a mild and misty December 7, following a funeral service in St. Stephen's Cathedral, he is buried in a common unmarked grave (as customary at this time) in St. Marx Cemetery in the presence of Salieri, Süssmayr, van Swieten (his patron) and two other musicians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365416177#October–December", "title": "1791", "revid": 1365416177, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1793, "year_label": "1793 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 2", "text": "January 2 – Premiere of Mozart's Requiem (completed after the composer's death in 1791 by Franz Xaver Süssmayr) in a performace for the benefit of Mozart's widow, Constanze.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358426983#January–June", "title": "1793", "revid": 1358426983, "section": "Events › January–June"}}, {"year": 1807, "year_label": "1807 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 6", "text": "6 May – Mozart's Don Juan is performed in Copenhagen for the first time, with Édouard Du Puy in the title role.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364833666#May", "title": "1807 in Denmark", "revid": 1364833666, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1812, "year_label": "1812 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 30", "text": "30 May - The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320765055#Events", "title": "1812 in Sweden", "revid": 1320765055, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1829, "year_label": "1829 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 29", "text": "October 29 – Maria Anna Mozart (\"Nannerl\"), Austrian musician and composer, sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1751)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371400114#July–December", "title": "1829", "revid": 1371400114, "section": "Deaths › July–December"}}, {"year": 1838, "year_label": "1838 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 17", "text": "August 17 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist for Mozart (b. 1749)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360381946#July–December", "title": "1838", "revid": 1360381946, "section": "Deaths › July–December"}}, {"year": 1842, "year_label": "1842 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 6", "text": "March 6 – Constanze Mozart, German-born wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b.1762)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365455258#January–June", "title": "1842", "revid": 1365455258, "section": "Deaths › January–June"}}, {"year": 1937, "year_label": "1937 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "December 25", "text": "December 25 – At the age of 70, conductor Arturo Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra on radio for the first time, beginning his successful 17-year tenure with that orchestra. This first concert consists of music by Vivaldi (at a time when he is seldom played), Mozart, and Brahms. Millions tune in to listen, including U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371759714#December", "title": "1937", "revid": 1371759714, "section": "Events › December"}}]}