Schott Music Wir entdecken Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the greatest composers and musicians of the Viennese classical period and enjoys a high reputation and popularity. The so-called child prodigy still exerts a great fascination on people of every generation.

Access to Mozart even for children

But what else is there to know about this very special person? Who was he behind his music? Things about his life, his personality and his music are to be brought closer to children with We Discover Mozart. In order to arouse interest in Mozart at an early age, many different questions are answered. For did you know that he

• composed his first piano pieces at the age of five?
• loved to eat liver dumplings with sauerkraut?
• travelled all over Europe for many years?
• not only loved to play the piano, but also billiards?
• was "dismissed" with a kick in Salzburg?
• wrote over 600 works in his short life?
  

The book deals with Mozart's many facets in a varied and playful way.

Contents:

• Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: a special name
• Of child prodigies and pets
• Appearance before the empress
• The great European journey
• Money worries and powder against smallpox
• In Italy
• Of fashion
• Of good food and games of all kinds
• Of a secret writing and a special footstep
• Oriental sounds in Vienna
• Constanze and life as a freelance composer
• Concertos, sonatas, symphonies and musical fun
• Opera successes and money
• Mozart still unforgotten today