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In 1781, shortly after Mozart had moved to Vienna, van Swieten met him again: at the salon of Countess Thun, Mozart played extracts from his recent opera Idomeneo, with van Swieten and other important officials in the audience ; this event helped instigate Mozart's commission for the opera The Abduction from the Seraglio, his first great success as a composer.
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1781 and shortly
This period includes the last major eruption of 1781 – 82 with a slightly more recent episode ending shortly before the arrival of Lewis and Clark in 1805.
His mother Rachel Moore had married Captain William Allston in 1775, though her husband died in 1781, shortly after the Battle of Cowpens.
While there, in October 1781, Dickinson was elected to represent Kent County in the State Senate, and shortly afterwards the Delaware General Assembly elected him the President of Delaware.
He became vicar of Harbury in 1746 and shortly after Chesterton both in Warwickshire followed by Snitterfield in 1754 where he took up residence until his death in 1781.
He died April 28, 1781, shortly after being released on parole.
He played a leading part in establishing a Coal Exchange in London ; but shortly after 1781, when he began to occupy himself solely as an underwriter and became a member of Lloyds, he over-speculated and failed.
In fact, du Barry was banished from Versailles in 1774 shortly before the king died from smallpox, and the necklace was presented to Antoinette in 1778, and again in 1781, she refused the necklace both times.
HMS Rattlesnake, a 198-ton, 12-gun cutter-rigged sloop, was wrecked on Trindade on 21 October 1781, shortly after Commander Philip d ’ Auvergne RN, Prince de Bouillon had taken over command.
1781 and after
The Continental Army having been funded by $ 20, 000 in French gold, Washington delivered the final blow to the British in 1781, after a French naval victory allowed American and French forces to trap a British army in Virginia.
He signed the Articles of Confederation in 1781 after Maryland finally joined the other states in ratifying them.
In November 1781, Hanson became the first President of the Continental Congress to be elected for an annual term as specified in the Articles of Confederation, although Samuel Huntington and Thomas McKean had served in that office after the ratification of the Articles.
The first such addition came from Nicolas Camille Flammarion in 1921, who added Messier 104 after finding Messier ’ s side note in his 1781 edition exemplar of the catalogue.
Nightmare ( 1800 ) after Henry Fuseli's The Nightmare ( 1781 ).
* 1781 – George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
Soon after this, in August 1781, he fought in the Battle of Dogger Bank under Admiral Parker.
Banks was made a baronet in 1781, three years after being elected president of the Royal Society.
This special angle of incidence is named after the Scottish physicist Sir David Brewster ( 1781 – 1868 ).
Three months after the empress ' death, it was rumoured that Marie Antoinette was pregnant again, which was confirmed in March 1781.
The British abandoned the fort following the failure of the Saratoga campaign, and it ceased to be of military value after 1781.
His father, a Baptist minister nicknamed " Sir John ," died four years after his birth ( 1781 ).
Blue Lick was one of the last battles of the Revolutionary War, coming after the main fighting ended in October 1781.
Acting with Continental Army and South Carolina militia commissions, he was a persistent adversary of the British in their occupation of South Carolina in 1780 and 1781, even after the Continental Army was driven out of the state in the Battle of Camden.
It was named after Brigadier General William Lee Davidson, an American Revolutionary War general killed at the Battle of Cowan's Ford on the Catawba River in 1781.
The British abandoned the wooden fort in 1781 after building the limestone Fort Mackinac on nearby Mackinac Island.
Also, the fact that an appreciable number of ships had to be detached to maintain naval superiority in the North Sea, meant that the already overstretched Royal Navy was even more strained after 1781.
This may have contributed to a number of the naval defeats the British suffered after 1781.
The town was named after George Washington, who traveled through the area several times during the American Revolution, and proverbially slept in New Preston in 1781.
Its settlement by Americans began when James Moore, Larken Rutherford, and James Garretson, settlers from Maryland and Virginia travelled to Kaskaskia, Illinois in 1781 and after wintering there, settled at or near Bellefontaine ( French for Beautiful Spring ) the next spring, in 1782.
It was abandoned in 1781 after a siege by the Chickasaw.
New Haven was founded as Pottinger's Landing in 1781 and later named New Haven by Samuel Pottinger after the Connecticut town.
In 1812, Captain Lemuel B. Mason, who had fought in the 1781 Battle of Guilford Court House in North Carolina during the Revolutionary War and subsequently retired to Gunstock Parish, successfully proposed incorporation of a new town to be named Guilford after that battle.
The lake was named after Benjamin Harvey, who founded the borough in 1781 and was a member of the Sons of Liberty, an eminent colonial-era group that eventually defeated the notion of Great Britain's Stamp Act.
It was discovered by Pierre Méchain on March 15, 1781 and was subsequently entered in Messier ’ s catalogue of nebulae and star clusters after Charles Messier made observations of his own on April 13, 1781.
1781 and Mozart
For example, Mozart wrote in December 1781 to his father that " the only one who counts in Emperor's eyes is Salieri ".
The biographer Alexander Wheelock Thayer believes that Mozart's rivalry with Salieri could have originated with an incident in 1781 when Mozart applied to be the music teacher of Princess Elisabeth of Württemberg, and Salieri was selected instead because of his reputation as a singing teacher.
By the time Mozart arrived at age 25, in 1781, the dominant styles of Vienna were recognizably connected to the emergence in the 1750s of the early Classical style.
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Variations on " Ah vous dirai-je, Maman " ( K. 265 / K. 300e ) ( 1781 or 1782 )
When the 25-year-old Mozart arrived in Vienna in 1781, seeking professional opportunity, one of the first tasks to which he addressed himself was to become acquainted with Stephanie and lobby him for an opera commission.
Mozart received the libretto from Stephanie on 29 July 1781.
It was on one of these occasions in 1781 that he famously engaged in a piano competition with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
In Vienna, he agreed to enter a musical contest with Mozart for the entertainment of Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II and his guests on 24 December 1781, at the Viennese court.
Idomeneo, a 1781 opera seria by Mozart, is based on the story of Idomeneus's return to Crete.
His reforms influenced Mozart, particularly his opera Idomeneo ( 1781 ).
Later in 1781 Mozart considered ( but did not put into effect ) revisions that would have brought the work closer into line with Gluck's style ; this would have meant a bass Idomeneo and a tenor Idamante.
* Heartz, Daniel ( 2008 ) Mozart, Haydn and early Beethoven, 1781 – 1802.
* Black, David ( 2007 ) " Mozart and the Practice of Sacred Music, 1781 – 91 ".
In 1781, when Mozart meets the Emperor, Salieri presents Mozart with a " March of Welcome ," which he toiled to create.
In a letter dated 26 September 1781, Mozart wrote, " Let me now turn to Belmonte's aria in A major, ‘ O wie ängstlich, o wie feurig ’.
Mozart himself moved to Vienna in 1781, and later that year was for a time a lodger in the Weber home.
Eventually Marianne did the Nissens a great favor: for purposes of the biography of Mozart they were writing, she let them have her collection of Mozart family letters, including Wolfgang and Leopold's correspondence up to 1781.
* Heartz, Daniel ( 2009 ) Haydn, Mozart, and early Beethoven, 1781 – 1802.
During the years following his move to Vienna ( 1781 ), Mozart made enough money to buy a fine piano, and he bought one not from Stein, but from Anton Walter, a Viennese builder who followed Stein's principles.
Mozart, Haydn and Early Beethoven: 1781 — 1802 W. W. Norton & Co.
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