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.

In 1768, when court intrigue prevented the performance of La Finta Semplice ( K. 51 ) for which a twelve-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had composed 500 pages of music, Mesmer is said to have arranged a performance in his garden of Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne ( K. 50 ), a one-act opera, though Mozart's biographer Nissen has stated that there is no proof that this performance actually took place.

Mozart biographer Maynard Solomon ( 1995 ) takes the view that the tours were lucrative and produced long-term profits for Leopold ; Ruth Halliwell ( 1998 ) states to the contrary that their income generally only covered their travel and living expenses.

* March 24-Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, Danish music historian, biographer of Mozart ( born 1761 )

* January 22 – Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, biographer of Mozart ( died 1826 )

* Georg Nikolaus von Nissen ( 1761 – 1826 ), Danish diplomat and writer, known as a biographer of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart biographer Alfred Einstein has suggested that Mozart took Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 26, in the same key, as a model.

On the reception of the opera, Mozart scholar Maynard Solomon writes:

* Solomon, Maynard ( 1995 ) Mozart: A Life.

* Solomon, Maynard ( 1995 ) Mozart: A Life.

* Solomon, Maynard ( 1995 ) Mozart: A Life.

* Solomon, Maynard ( 1996 ) Mozart: A Life.

* Solomon, Maynard ( 1995 ) Mozart: A Life.

Maynard Solomon writes, " at three, Mozart was inspired to study music by observing his father's instruction of Marianne ; he wanted to be like her.

In his renowned biography of Beethoven, Maynard Solomon notes that, in his later years, " Beethoven unfailingly referred to his old master in terms of reverence, regarding him as the equal " of Mozart and Bach.

* Solomon, Maynard ( 1995 ) Mozart: A Life.

Indeed, in the period immediately after his death, Mozart's reputation rose substantially: Solomon describes an " unprecedented wave of enthusiasm " for his work ; biographies were written ( first by Schlichtegroll, Niemetschek, and Nissen ; see Biographies of Mozart ); and publishers vied to produce complete editions of his works.

Carl Maria von Weber, a relative of Mozart by marriage whom Wagner has characterized as the most German of German composers, is said to have refused to join Ludlams-Höhle, a social club of which Salieri was a member and avoided having anything to do with him.

He has used this program to great effect with composers such as Bach and Mozart ( his program Experiments in Musical Intelligence is famous for creating " Mozart's 42nd Symphony "), and also within his own pieces, combining his own creations with that of the computer.

This finding which has been named " The Mozart effect " suggests that music and spatial reasoning are related psychologically ( i. e., they may rely on some of the same underlying skills ) and perhaps neurologically as well.

Ragtime ( with Joplin's work at the forefront ) has been cited as an American equivalent of minuets by Mozart, mazurkas by Chopin, or waltzes by Brahms.

The action then flashes back to the eighteenth century, at a time when Salieri has not met Mozart in person, but has heard of him and his music.

Indeed, Salieri, who has been a devout Catholic all his life, cannot believe that God would choose Mozart over him for such a gift.

* Schmidt is also a talented pianist, and has recorded piano concertos of both Mozart and Bach with the well-known German pianist and conductor, Christoph Eschenbach.

Bizet was a great admirer of Rossini's music, and wrote not long after their first meeting that " Rossini is the greatest of them all, because like Mozart, he has all the virtues ".

Critics have found it unremarkable, but the Symphony in C of the same year has been warmly praised by later commentators who have made favourable comparisons with Mozart and Schubert.

This style has been described as neoclassical, but is very different from the works by Igor Stravinsky labeled with that term, owing more to the contrapuntal language of Johann Sebastian Bach and Max Reger than the Classical clarity of Mozart.

Kleveland notes that he has been called " Swedish poetry's Mozart, and Hogarth ", observing that

While there has to be some elements of real life history to the setting under most definitions, the " detective " may be a real-life historical figure, e. g. Socrates, Jane Austen, Mozart, or a wholly imaginary character.

He has directed the London Mozart Players, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in this way.

* Mozart and Salieri are known to have composed together a cantata for voice and piano called Per la ricuperata salute di Ophelia which was celebrating the return to stage of the singer Nancy Storace, and which has been lost, although it had been printed by Artaria in 1785.

It has been suggested, too, that Beethoven is trying to tell us that Diabelli's theme was stolen from Mozart.

He has also featured in cult band Go Kart Mozart.

The Requiem Mass is notable for the large number of musical compositions that it has inspired, including settings by Mozart, Verdi, Dvořák, Fauré and Duruflé.

Out of Africa has Karen Blixen and Denys Finch Hatton travelling, with Denys refusing to abandon home comforts using fine china and crystal and listening to Mozart recordings over the gramophone while on safari trip.

This has been called the " Mozart effect.

She has been contracted to record concertos and quartets by Mozart with members of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and the French album with music by Debussy, Ravel, Ibert and Roussel.

Vienna has been suggested as a possible place of composition, with others believing the sonatas were written during a visit to Salzburg where Mozart introduced his wife, Constanze, to his father, Leopold.

Neo has won a worldwide reputation for their unique electro-pop style and the " Mozart of pop music " award ( Cannes, 2004 ) they received for their soundtrack album called " Control ".

Prior to this, he had defaulted to the dominant view of the Parisian music establishment, as typified by Le Sueur: that the symphony was a lesser form of composition that Mozart and Haydn had already taken as far as possible.

Among the non-Italian born baritones that were active in the third quarter of the 19th century, Tamburini's mantle as an outstanding exponent of Mozart and Donizetti's music was probably taken up most faithfully by a Belgian, Camille Everardi, who later settled in Russia and taught voice.

Chopin, played by Cornel Wilde, is first presented to the audience as a child prodigy playing a piece by Mozart, but suddenly starts to bang on the piano keys when he notices out the window that Polish people are being taken prisoners by the Russian authorities.

In the 19th and 20th centuries countless composers after Mozart and Beethoven have taken up this challenge, including Lennox Berkeley, Carlos Chávez, Henry Cowell, Jean Cras, Paul Dessau, Ernst von Dohnányi, Hanns Eisler, Jean Françaix, Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Paul Hindemith, Gideon Klein, Frank Martin, Bohuslav Martinů, Darius Milhaud, Ernest John Moeran, Manuel Ponce, Max Reger, Terry Riley, Alexis Roland-Manuel, Miklós Rózsa, Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schubert, William Schuman, Jean Sibelius, Robert Simpson, Richard Strauss, Sergei Taneyev, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Anton Webern, and Eugène Ysaÿe.

In his mature symphonies, Mehul continued the path taken by Haydn ( the Paris Symphonies, 1785 – 86, for example ) and Mozart ( Symphony No. 40, K. 550, 1788 ), two composers who enjoyed great popularity in France in the early 19th century.

( The programme was an imagined reconstruction of a 1783 pantomime in which Mozart and Aloysia Weber are said to have taken part.

You have not taken a weekend with your wife, you have no spare time that you use constructively, you do not have any hobbies, you do not know how to spell Mozart.

Moving to Vienna in 1790 he visited Wolfgang Mozart and may have taken lessons from him.

A centuries-old theme in Western culture is the depiction of European women forcibly taken into Oriental harems – evident for example in the Mozart opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail (" The Abduction from the Seraglio ") concerning the attempt of the hero Belmonte to rescue his beloved Konstanze from the seraglio / harem of the Pasha Selim ; or in Voltaire's Candide, in chapter 12 of which the old woman relates her experiences of being sold into harems across the Ottoman Empire.

Mozart and Salieri (, Motsart i Salyeri ) is a one-act opera in two scenes by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, written in 1897 to a Russian libretto taken almost verbatim from Alexander Pushkin's 1830 verse drama of the same name.