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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austrian composer of the Classical period (1756-1791)

40 dated entries naming Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, drawn from 27 separate years between 1719 CE and 1937 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Mozart, W. A. Mozart, Wolfgang Mozart in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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18th century

  • 1719November 14 – Leopold Mozart, German/Austrian composer, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (died 1787)source
  • 1751July 30 – Maria Anna Mozart ("Nannerl"), Austrian musician and composer, sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (died 1829)source
  • 1751July 30 (midnight) – Maria Anna Mozart ("Nannerl"), Austrian pianist, singer, composer and violinist, sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartsource
  • 1756January 27 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in Salzburg, Austria, to Anna Maria and Leopold Mozart.source
  • 1756January 27 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (died 1791)source
  • 1763June 9 - The Mozart family grand tour departed following the Seven Years' War. Leopold Mozart took seven year old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister Maria Anna Mozart on a Western Europe tour to perform in front of royalty.source
  • 1763July 9 – The Mozart family grand tour of Europe began, lifting the profile of child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus.source
  • 176423 April – Mozart family grand tour: 8-year-old W. A. Mozart settles in London for a year where he composes his Symphony No. 1.source
  • 1764April 27 – Eight-year-old child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart performs a private concert before King George III and Queen Charlotte in Great Britain, and has an encore on May 19.source
  • 1766November 29 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart returns to Salzburg, after the Mozart family grand tour of Europe.source
  • 1769March 4 – Mozart departs Italy, after the last of his three tours there.source
  • 1771October 17 – The opera Ascanio in Alba by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15, premieres in Milan.source
  • 1775Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart writes his five violin concertos in Salzburg at about this date.source
  • 1775January 5 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart finishes a Sonata for Keyboard in C.source
  • 1776July 21 – Mozart's Serenade No. 7 (the "Haffner") is first performed in Salzburg, Austria.source
  • 1778July 3 – Anna Maria Mozart, Austrian mother to the Mozarts (born 1720)source
  • 1781March 16 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrives in Vienna after being fired by the Archbishop of Salzburg. He would stay there for the rest of his brief life.source
  • 1782July 16 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail premieres at the Burgtheater in Vienna.source
  • 178216 July - Premiere of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Burgtheater, Viennasource
  • 1783October 17 – Mozart's Great Mass is first performed, in Salzburg, Austria.source
  • 1785Mozart's "Haydn" String Quartets are published, as is his collaboration with Salieri and a third, unknown composer, Cornetti, Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia.source
  • 1786May 1 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro premieres in Vienna.source
  • 1787January 19 – Mozart's Symphony No. 38 is premièred in Prague.source
  • 1787August 10 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes his famous Eine kleine Nachtmusik.source
  • 1787October 29 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni (libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte) premieres in the Estates Theatre in Prague.source
  • 1788June 26 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Vienna, completes his antepenultimate symphony, the Symphony No. 39 in E-flat.source
  • 1788July 28 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Vienna, completes his penultimate symphony, the Symphony No. 40 in G Minor.source
  • 1788August 10 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Vienna, completes his final symphony, the Symphony No. 41 in C Major, and nicknamed (after his death) The Jupiter.source
  • 1790January 26 – Mozart's opera Così fan tutte premieres in Vienna.source
  • 1791September 6 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera seria, La clemenza di Tito, premières at the Estates Theatre in Prague with Mozart conducting to mark the coronation of Leopold II as King of Bohemia.source
  • 1791September 30 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's singspiel opera The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) premières at the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna with Mozart conducting.source
  • 1791December 5 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, German composer (born in Salzburg, then part of the kingdom of Germany 1756)source
  • 1791December 5 – Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies early this morning aged 35 at his home in Vienna, having been bedridden since November 20 with a serious illness, perhaps acute rheumatic fever. On a mild and misty December 7, following a funeral service in St. Stephen's Cathedral, he is buried in a common unmarked grave (as customary at this time) in St. Marx Cemetery in the presence of Salieri, Süssmayr, van Swieten (his patron) and two other musicians.source
  • 1793January 2 – Premiere of Mozart's Requiem (completed after the composer's death in 1791 by Franz Xaver Süssmayr) in a performace for the benefit of Mozart's widow, Constanze.source

19th century

  • 18076 May – Mozart's Don Juan is performed in Copenhagen for the first time, with Édouard Du Puy in the title role.source
  • 181230 May - The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.source
  • 1829October 29 – Maria Anna Mozart ("Nannerl"), Austrian musician and composer, sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born 1751)source
  • 1838August 17 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist for Mozart (born 1749)source
  • 1842March 6 – Constanze Mozart, German-born wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b.1762)source

20th century

  • 1937December 25 – At the age of 70, conductor Arturo Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra on radio for the first time, beginning his successful 17-year tenure with that orchestra. This first concert consists of music by Vivaldi (at a time when he is seldom played), Mozart, and Brahms. Millions tune in to listen, including U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.source

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