Wolfgang Mozart (1756-1791): a great Austrian composer and an outstanding representative of the Vienna classical music school. Born into a family of Salzburg court musicians, he showed great musical talent at an early age and excelled in improvisation and composition. He composed a minuet at the age of six and successfully traveled and performed in Europe. Known as the "child prodigy". In 1773, he served as court musician of the Archbishop of Salzburg. In 1781, he was dissatisfied with the severe control imposed by the bishop and resigned angrily. He came to Vienna and embarked on the difficult path of a free musician. All of Mozart's works are permeated with his thoughts of pursuing democracy and freedom, and burst out with bright and optimistic emotions under huge social pressure. He widely used various music forms, successfully organically linked the national music of Germany, Austria, Italy and other countries with traditional European music, giving them profound ideological content and perfect form, opening up a new path for the development of Western music. A new road. Its creative techniques are novel, the melody is simple and beautiful, the texture is clean and meticulous, and the orchestration pays attention to the timbre effect. It plays a positive role in polyphonic music and has a great influence on the music creation of later generations. He created a total of seventy-five works in his short life, leaving behind famous operas such as "The Marriage of Figaro", "Don Juan", "The Escape from the Harem" and "The Magic Flute", making opera a A new genre with citizen characteristics. He also composed a large number of symphonies, concertos, piano pieces and chamber music ensembles.
Franz Schubert (1797-1828): composer and one of the founders of romantic music. Born on January 31, 1797, his father was the principal of a primary school in the suburbs of Vienna. He had 19 children, Schubert was the youngest. He has been fond of music since he was a child. He started learning violin and piano from his father and brother at the age of 8. At the age of 11, he entered the choir of the seminary where he attended for free. In 1811, he composed his first song "Hajar's Sorrow". At the age of 16, he became a teacher in his father's primary school. He teaches and composes music at the same time. At the age of 17, he composed music for Goethe's poems "Greching at the Spinning Wheel" and "Wild Rose". When he was 18 years old, one afternoon, he picked up Goethe's narrative poem "The Devil" to read, and suddenly his mood was aroused. An hour later, the world-famous song "The Devil" was born. This famous song immediately caused a sensation in Vienna and set him on the path of music creation. Schubert only lived to be 33 years old, but he wrote 634 art songs throughout his life. In addition, he also wrote 8 symphonies, some ensembles, sonatas, improvisations and other musical works. "Serenade" is appreciated by the world for its soulfulness and beauty. Schubert used harmonic color changes and various musical genres to depict personal psychological activities, which are full of the harmony and vitality of nature. He put his fleeting reverie into music scores and expressed what he felt Everything turns into a musical image, forming his unique romantic melody. He admired Beethoven very much. In 1822, Schubert went to see Beethoven with his newly published works, and Beethoven happened to be out. Later, Beethoven discovered this piece of music while he was ill and said, "This work is full of magical sparks." However, when Schubert went to see Beethoven again, Beethoven was critically ill and could not speak. When Schubert was dying, he asked his relatives and friends to bury him next to Beethoven. Now their bronze statues stand side by side in Vienna Square.
Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825-1899): the son of Johann Strauss Sr., a famous Austrian light music composer. Born into a family of musicians in Vienna, where dancing was popular, he had the same name as his father. His creations are famous for more than 120 Viennese waltzes such as "The Blue Danube", "The Story of the Vienna Woods", "The Life of the Artist" and "Sound of Spring". He was dubbed the "King of Waltz" by future generations. . He once led the orchestra to visit various European countries, making the Vienna Waltz popular throughout Europe. His waltzes are unique, with hearty, melodious melody, free rhythm and full of vitality. They are the main pieces of the Vienna New Year's Concert every year. He also composed more than 120 polka dances from the Czech Republic such as "Thunder and Lightning" and dozens of other dances. Since 1870, he has created sixteen operettas including "The Bat", "The Carnival of Rome", "Alibaba and the Forty Thieves", and "The Gypsy Baron", which have had a profound impact on the development of European operettas.
Haydn, J.Joseph Haydn (1732~1809) Austrian composer. Born on March 31, 1732 in Rolau, a village in Lower Austria on the Austrian-Hungarian border, and died in Vienna on May 31, 1809. His father was a wheelwright who had been passed down from generation to generation, and his mother was a kitchen worker in a noble house. The family was poor, and 6 of the 12 children died in infancy. Haydn was the second of the 12 children.
Beethoven, who was born in Germany, also lived in Austria for a long time