Download Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756- 1791)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756- 1791)
W.A. Mozart was born in Salzburg (Austria) into a very musically gifted family.
His father was already famous and tought him from the age of 3 how to play the
piano and the violine.
At the age of 5 he already started to compose and performed in concerts at the
age of 6. Therefor he was and is still called a „Wunderkind“- a „Genius child“.
Even as a child he travelled around in Europe to give concerts for the courts and
public academies.
As an adult he had respectable positions in the Austrian music world and composed
concerts for all kinds of instruments, operas, synfonies, church music,
chamber music and songs.
He married Constanze and they got 6 children, but only two of them survived their
early years.
Although he became a very famous artist and composer even in his time, he was not
very lucky with money and never became really rich.
At the age of 35 he died very poor after a long time of sickness and was burried in
a pauper´s grave in Vienna.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LwrEdXQgLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nab2Nyp1-Ao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjHRhMPPjhc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2POsVhLQhU
Austria´s „Comenius teacher“
Thomas Hagmüller
Thomas Hagmüller, a member of the Comenius staff of the Europaschule in
Linz/Austria is a regionally well known and very busy musician in Upper Austria.
1.) Thomas is one of the four members of the Band „Black Flash“, a
regionally well known cover band. ( http://www.black-flash.net/ )
He plays the piano and the keyboards and his rough voice reminds on Joe
Cocker or CCR and is a brand mark of „Black flash“.
Listen to some music samples of the band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu1C4b1yV9k
2.) Thomas is also a partner of „Austria´s Elvis Presley“ Ty Tender.
They were both invited to a very famous show of China´s biggest TV
broadcasting station.
300 million Chinese people were actually watching their performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SykQ1M5Kkdc
At the 70th birthday of Ty Tender there was a big show with a lot of
international guests in Linz:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PALleXnGZTU
3.) Thomas is also the composer of several well known songs of all kinds of
genres including another Comenius song of our previous project „Our
common culture, history and traditions“ called „Children of Europe“:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbDpa3JGDy4
Traditional Music in Austria
There is a very long tradition of traditional music and dance in Austria.
Every region has ist own kind of traditional costumes, music and dance.
This is a typical traditional costume of our region Upper Austria:
In the Austrian traditional music you can find very special instruments:
Accordion
Zither
Hammered Dulcimer
Listen to some samples of Austrian traditional music:
Accordion music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDJNjE2dXoY
Zither music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acsnaLCTPSk
Hammered Dulcimer music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fnVlyEqcWA
This is a typical Austrian traditional dance called „Landler“:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDiJafAGSKc
This dance we call „Polka“:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEGtgKilkj0
A very special traditional dance only for boys is called „Schuhplatteln“:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b85BaYS0v50
Coloring picture of
traditional
Austrian instruments