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Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart was born in Vienna on 26 July 1791, four months and ten days before his father’s death, the youngest of Wolfgang Amadeus and Constanze Mozart’s six children and the younger of the two who survived; baptised Franz Xaver, he was always called Wolfgang at home. Under Joseph Haydn’s supervision he was taught by Salieri and Hummel and studied composition with Albrechtsberger and Sigismund von Neukomm, learning both piano and violin, and made his Vienna debut at thirteen in April 1805 at the Theater an der Wien. Introverted and given to self-deprecation, he underrated his own work and feared the comparison with his father that any piece of his would invite. He never married, and died of stomach cancer at Karlsbad on 29 July 1844.
Short of money, he went in 1808 to Lemberg to teach the daughters of the Polish count Wiktor Baworowski, moved in 1809 to Burshtyn to teach for Count von Janiszewski, and in 1813 settled in Lemberg for twenty-five years of teaching and concerts. He conducted a four-hundred-voice amateur choir of St Cecilia from 1826 to 1829 — including his father’s Requiem at St George’s Cathedral in 1826 — and out of it built the St Cecilia musical brotherhood, which became the city’s first school of music. He toured Europe between 1819 and 1821, and was one of the fifty composers who each contributed a variation on Diabelli’s theme to the second part of the Vaterländischer Künstlerverein, the collection whose first part is Beethoven’s Op. 120. He was close to Schubert until Schubert’s death in 1828, and Schumann thought well of him. In 1838 he went to Salzburg as Kapellmeister of the Mozarteum.
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F.X.W. Mozart: Sechs Lieder, Op. 21: Aus dem Französischen des J.J.Rousseau— Barbara Bonney
Performed by Barbara Bonney
F.X.W. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 14: I. Allegro maestoso— Howard Shelley
Performed by Howard Shelley
F.X.W. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 14: II. Adagio— Howard Shelley
Performed by Howard Shelley
F.X.W. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 14: III. Allegretto— Howard Shelley
Performed by Howard Shelley
F.X.W. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 25: I. Allegro con brio— Howard Shelley
Performed by Howard Shelley
F.X.W. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 25: II. Andante espressivo— Howard Shelley
Performed by Howard Shelley
F.X.W. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 25: III. Rondo. Allegretto— Howard Shelley
Performed by Howard Shelley
F.X.W. Mozart: Drei Deutsche Lieder, Op. 27: An den Abendstern— Barbara Bonney
Performed by Barbara Bonney
F.X.W. Mozart: Drei Deutsche Lieder, Op. 27: Bertha’s Lied in der Nacht— Barbara Bonney
Performed by Barbara Bonney
F.X.W. Mozart: Sechs Lieder: Der Schmetterling auf einem Vergissmeinnicht— Barbara Bonney
Performed by Barbara Bonney
F.X.W. Mozart: In der Väter Hallen ruht, Op. 12 (Romanze)— Barbara Bonney
Performed by Barbara Bonney
F.X.W. Mozart: Acht Deutsche Lieder (1810) : Die Einsamkeit— Barbara Bonney
Performed by Barbara Bonney
F.X.W. Mozart: Acht Deutsche Lieder (1810) : Das Klavier— Barbara Bonney
Performed by Barbara Bonney
F.X.W. Mozart: Acht Deutsche Lieder (1810) : Der Vergnügsame— Barbara Bonney
Performed by Barbara Bonney
F.X.W. Mozart: Acht Deutsche Lieder (1810) : Aus den Griechischen— Barbara Bonney
Performed by Barbara Bonney
F.X.W. Mozart: Acht Deutsche Lieder (1810) : Todtengräberlied— Barbara Bonney
Performed by Barbara Bonney
F.X.W. Mozart: Acht Deutsche Lieder (1810) : Mein Mädchen— Barbara Bonney
Performed by Barbara Bonney
F.X.W. Mozart: Acht Deutsche Lieder (1810) : Das Geheimniss— Barbara Bonney
Performed by Barbara Bonney
F.X.W. Mozart: An Emma (Weit in nebelgraue Ferne) , Op. 24— Barbara Bonney
Performed by Barbara Bonney