Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart ( German: Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart ; July 26, 1791 , Vienna - July 29, 1844 , Karlovy Vary ), also known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jr. - Austrian composer, pianist, music teacher. The youngest of six born and two surviving children of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his wife Constance . Received a name in honor of his father’s closest friend and pupil, Franz Xaver Süssmayer .
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 Franz Xaver Mozart in the portrait of K. Schweickard ( Lemberg , ca. 1825) | |
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| Date of Birth | July 26, 1791 |
| Place of Birth | the city of Vienna , Austria |
| Date of death | July 29, 1844 (53 years) |
| Place of death | Karlovy Vary Czech |
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| A country |  Austrian Empire |
| Professions | composer , music teacher , pianist |
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Biography
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart was born in Vienna.
He received a brilliant musical education: his teachers were Antonio Salieri and Jan Nepomuk Gummel [1] . He learned to play the piano and violin. In childhood, under the guidance of his mother, he toured with concerts under the name of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Jr. Like his father, he began to compose early, in 1802 having published the piano quartet Op. one.
Franz Xaver became a professional musician and was content with moderate success as a teacher and performer. Unlike his father, he was withdrawn and prone to self-deprecation, constantly underestimating his talent and fearing that everything he creates will be compared with the works of his father.
In 1808 - 1838 Mozart Jr. lived in Lemberg (now Lviv ) and its surroundings ( Podkamen , Burshtyn ) with minor interruptions, earning mainly as a music teacher in the homes of the most noble families of Galicia : Chartori , Yanishevskys, Bavorovsky, Sapeg , etc. He also stood at the beginnings of the first Lemberg musical society "Cecilia", which became the core of the future Lviv Philharmonic Society : On December 2, 1826, the famous violinist Karol Lipinsky and the choir of the society led by Mozart gave a concert in Lviv in memory of Mozart-father [2] .
In 1838 he moved to Vienna, and then to Salzburg, where he received the post of bandmaster in Mozarteum . Died July 29, 1844 in the city of Karlovy Vary , where he was buried. On his death a poem written by Franz Grillparzer .
Never been married and had no children.
The shadow of his father loomed over him even after death. An epitaph was engraved on his tombstone:
His father's name may be his epitaph, since honoring him was the essence of his life.
Notes
- ↑ Divox Biography Unreferenced (inaccessible link) . The date of circulation is June 28, 2008. Archived August 25, 2011.
- ↑ Lyubov Kiyanovska. Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart and Lviv // «», № 29, 2003 (ukr.)