Mozart’s innovation in opera themes and musical forms

As a representative of the Viennese classical music school, Mozart’s personality is entirely related to music. He advocated that music is the structural basis of opera. He is After Gluck, he was one of the important figures who injected fresh vitality into the art of opera. Unlike Gluck, he emphasized the important position of music in opera. He once said that "poetry must absolutely obey music." This does not mean that Mozart's music is divorced from the plot, but emphasizes the huge role of music in shaping the character's image and reflecting the character's inner activities. While comforting himself and others with extremely exquisite artistic touches, he actually became a great reformer. Mozart's operas broke away from the stereotyped singing of castratoes, highlighted the contrast between voices, and more truly expressed the dramatic relationship between opera characters. In "The Escape from the Harem", Mozart reformed the evolution of the musical form and adopted The novel harmony method and the original orchestration method that were unfamiliar to people at that time, and the creative use of accompaniment instruments to meet the needs of the plot, increased the band's power to create dramatic effects. Different timbres are even used to depict different characters. In addition, Mozart develops a certain motive symphonically in the accompaniment to promote the development of the drama. We can clearly see these two points in the Italian serenade "Come to the Window" sung by Don Juan with his guitar in his arms, and in the scene where the stone statue in the cemetery opens its mouth to persuade Don Juan. His operas have beautiful and smooth melodies, focusing on using music to depict the character's personality and inner personality. The recitative also imparts singing qualities, making the vocal part more moving. Because Mozart had extraordinary musical talent and was able to boldly adopt realistic creative techniques, his operatic artistic expression was far better than Gluck's.

In Mozart’s opera creation, in addition to making people feel the rich flavor of life, relaxation, liveliness and humor, he also creates a vivid musical character image one after another in the opera. Various criss-crossing unique dominant motives, focusing on the development of the character's psychological drama, allow us to see his emphasis on people-oriented thinking. He does not need to look back at the deeds of the ancient Greek gods, or use symbols to express his thoughts. The trivial matters around him are imbued with profound connotations in Mozart's wonderful writing

2. Mozart's operatic style Comprehensive

Mozart's music has real and tangible emotions and does not deliberately pursue the sublime, but at the same time his music has an extraordinary sublime temperament. His opera works cover a wide range of categories - Italian-style comic operas, German-style cantata and serious operas. Among them, "interest" represents the characteristics of Italian opera. Italian opera gave Mozart a sense of perfect form and beautiful sound; "knowledge" represented the characteristics of German music. Always shrouded in a literary aura, Gluck's pattern creation brought Mozart a free spirit of fantasy and poetry. The German heart refers to the profound national character reflected in Mozart’s opera creation.

Contribution

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He is the first free composer in the history of Western music to break away from the protection of powerful people. Only after Mozart did musicians gradually realize the importance of freedom. It was not until Beethoven that musicians truly found dignity.

In the history of music, he further perfected the genre of piano concerto and pushed the new form of quartet to its peak. In opera, he developed Italian opera and pioneered German opera.

His works touched on almost all musical forms known at the time. Many works such as: Clarinet Concerto, Oboe Concerto, Piano Concerto, Requiem, etc. have become examples for later generations. To this day, few people can produce works that can keep pace with them.

More importantly, he gave infinite inspiration and encouragement to future generations. Beethoven received his teachings when he was young. He exerted an immeasurable influence on the music history that lasted for more than 300 years.