Mozart!! and his time period.?

Question

What events were going on that could have caused Mozart's moods?? like was there a war or anything???

and also, (this part is just for your opinion) do you think Mozart's music really makes you smarter???

THANKS!!!

Answer 1

Oh it does, it does: Mozart makes you smarter in a very specific regard, : it makes you realise that a blind devotion to craft above all, against the odds, and a terrifying degree of attention to detail and blistering faith in a craftsman's integrity when it's all going pearshaped in your life, can make even a Beethoven buckle -- no slouch in the self-belief department -- and try to measure himself against him by, for instance, writing a cadenza for a concerto he was never likely to perform. Mozart is not a musician's musician for sentimental reasons: no matter how great the ego, we all end up blanching at the sheer scope, scale and universality of his achievement. That's something that does indeed make you very much smarter. And a bit goofy. And ready to understand what humility is. And that's smarter *beyond* music.

Answer 2

What events were going on that could have caused Mozart's moods?? like was there a war or anything???

Mozart, a true genius, was preempt from doing the KID thing. His dad trained him i music and exhibited him like a money dancing to a grinder. His dad dragged Wolfgang all over Europe and took the dough. Mozart was made to feel like the most important person on earth outside royalty. Privately, he developed a huge narcissistic behavioral disorder. As an adult, he drank to perfusion, smoked, gambled fortunes away each night AT the tables. He also could make money by the fist fulls for composing and teaching nobility.

He would have starred in Alcoholics anonymous and gamblers Anonymous too.. He was killed by failed kidneys, alcohol dead, this, despite the popular belief in the fabricated Amadeus movie and play ending.


and also, (this part is just for your opinion) do you think Mozart's music really makes you smarter???


Absolutely! It;s also shown scientifically to center us in times of strife.

Answer 3

Mozart was a child prodigy...if you're trying to tell what caused his moods, I would say being pushed so hard as a child. He had to travel around the world and play for emporers and leaders. His father sent him here and there. As for moods, maybe sometimes he enjoyed playing, and other times he just wanted to be a normal kid. His mother's death would have impacted him. Leaving his family behind to travel would have impacted him. I would suggest hiring out one of his biographies at a library. Reading his life story will help you understand his music so much more.

As for making you smarter. I think Mozarts music can certainly enhance a person's ability to think.

Answer 4

Mozart's moods were a function of his personality rather than what was happening in the world in general. Like many highly strung geniuses, he tended to be a little unstable at times.
No, listening to Mozart, whilst laudable for a number of other reasons, does not make you smarter. It is just the coincidence that people who listen to Mozart (well, classical music in general) happen to be smart.
People who listen to classical music were probably smart before they realized the value of the musical genre. Not everybody who is smart listens to classical. Usually it takes a kind of sensativity to listen and appreciate classical.

Answer 5

Try www.answers.com It will explain almost everything about Mozart's life. About your 2nd question: Studies proove that (in a baby's case) that if you listen to classical music (not necessarily Mozart's) it will eventually develop your thinking skills in a higher level. It won't make you smarter but show what you can really achieve.

Answer 6

It depend on how you do perceive classical music generally. Mozart was a great maestro in any meaning of that term. He was a mason. Therefore, his mature works are really great unlike his early music for a fun. He was very prolific composer for such short period of the life and his operas, cantatas, requiem, symphonies are actually fabulous creations. If you may focus on that music while listen to, you become definitely smarter .

Answer 7

Music_chick's answer was so out of tune. Mozart's life doesn't seem to be influenced by big events, but rather by his personal history. The relationship with his father, a musician and theoreticist, to whom W.A. had affection and rivalry and who took him very early to Rome and in prodigy-concerts all over the place; his good mother, Anne Maria Pertl, who accompanied him to Paris with grace and modesty, his beloved sister, his girl-cousin with whom he entertained a pen-relationship full of childish dirty words and so on. His wife and sister-in-law, both singers, the archbishop Colloredo of Salzburg, who sent a slavish count to physically kick his bottom when he openly declared that he wanted to go to Wien and see places and be independent. His fellowship and friendship with Haydn in masonry, a rare example of mutual affection between potential rivals. The stupid legend about Salieri poisoning him (S. had 6 children and was a church-addicted man). His last days in poverty, after all the glamour and success. That gray man urging him to finish the D-minor Requiem K.626, a milestone for mankind not less than theory of relativity or Homer's Iliad. And the common grave where his sacred bones went lost.
Music makes you better. Mozart's music rescues you from darkness and pessimism. When younger, I spent 6 months in hard exclusive full-immersion on Mahler's symphonies and after that, when my mood was 6 ft. under, I found it natural to plunge into Mozart again to wash off all that dreary world. Mozart does make you better.

Answer 8

Mozart's music doesn't make you smarter, it enhances your spatial reasoning for a short time ( we're talking less than 15 minutes.)

There's nothing special about mozart's music in this regard, (any music will do, but Mozart's was used for the study) but it's been misconstrued by the press and the general public.

Learning or listening to music doesn't make you smarter in anything except music.

Answer 9

Moods? Mozart was just a drunk. He lived in the Classical era (classical w/ a capital c as opposed to a lowercase one).

Does it make you smarter? Who really knows?

Answer 10

try wikipedia.