The Gift of Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart can easily be regarded as one of the music world’s most influential composers. Most of the most famous operas that we have today were products of Mozart. Operas like the Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, and Don Giovanni are all well known and were all composed by Mozart. Not only was Mozart known for his operas, but also for his concertos of the many different instruments. While Mozart wrote 27 concertos for piano, the concertos I know the most are the ones for French horn and more specifically Concerto Number 3 in E flat Major. When one first looks at the concerto, it looks overwhelming; there are three movements in the pattern of fast-slow-fast and in this case allegro-larghetto-allegro. There are several melodies all of which might not seem to hard, until one tries to play them. Mozart was a genius at making music sound so light and airy with flourishes perfectly placed, but actually playing the music that light is not easy. Musicians back then and even today are challenged trying to play Mozart’s pieces light while getting all the right notes and dynamics. But when a musician does play everything right, the sound is incredible and that was the genius of Mozart. When we watched the movie in class, it showed Mozart easily changing that march into something more exciting and difficult and that was his gift, he was so in touch with music and how it worked that pieces and melodies came to him. The world will never know what could have been created if Mozart had lived to an old age, but the music that he did create made the musical world better.