It is hard to believe that the death of a man can remain unknown for several centuries. It is even harder to believe that the death of one of the greatest composers of all time, is indeed that. That composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was a child prodigy. He performed for royalty, wrote and composed symphonies, and learn to play the violin and organ without instruction all before he ever reached the age of seven. Mozart was truly blessed with a gift from God to hear the music before he ever wrote it.
Many people were aware of that gift, including Antonio Salieri. Salieri was the court composer and was thought of highly until the works of Mozart became heard in Vienna. Mozart was amazing and astounding and loved by all-all except Salieri. Salieri sat and watched this man, this great “wonder child”, and asked God why he had given this perverted and immature boy such a wondrous gift. He asked God why he had put the love of music in his heart if he was going to give the talent to Mozart.
During the time that Salieri spent with Mozart, did only his pain, hatred and jealousy grow. Salieri wished nothing but humiliation, failure and perhaps even death on Wolfgang Mozart. Through all of those distressing emotions, I’m not sure that Antonio Salieri ever wanted Mozart dead so badly, that he could have or would have killed him, as some historians have said. I believe that if Salieri would have wanted Mozart dead, that he would have acted more quickly that he did. After all, why would Salieri, the man jealous of the work and popularity of Mozart, ever let him become such a success Why didn’t Salieri act on his internal rage before hand Simple, through of the hatred that Salieri felt toward Mozart, he could not help but to appreciate his work that was so finely mastered. I, myself think that Mozart’s death was caused by alcohol.
The Essay on Personal Philosophy of Man , God and the World
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all, I am grateful to the Almighty God for establishing me to complete this project. I wish to express my sincere thanks to SOTERO H. LAUREL Librarians, for providing me with all the necessary facilities and books that I need to be able to carefully analyze all the topics that have been discuss in philosophy of human existence. I also thank Professor Josefina C. Perez, one ...
Mozart was always a very heavy drinker, but especially after he moved to Vienna. There could have a been numerous explanations for his excessive drinking, one might have been stress. From looking at what Mozart accomplished, you might have thought that he was a very hard-worker and a very serious man, always getting things done when they needed to be. You would be right in thinking that Mozart was a very hard-worker and that he always had his work finished before he had ever started it. Yet of all the titles that Mozart had earned, mature was definitely not included. Mozart was indeed a parties.
He loved to drink and dance and play. I think that his drinking started out as a social occurrence and then it was more of a pleasure. But all to soon, Mozart would become more and more addicted to alcohol. He became somewhat dependent on liquor, even though it was never stated, it was obvious that his late-night “sneak-outs” were associated with the stress of his work. Mozart would drink constantly, during a meal, and while he was writing music, which would have been how he spent the other twenty-three hours of his day. Mozart never learned how to manage his time so that he would have time to do other things, such as spending time with his family.
He also never understood that there were limits to anything. That “blindness” included his love of alcohol. The failure to ever learn these, time-management and boundary skills, would drive him farther away from everything he wanted, his family, his work and life. The death of young Mozart was completely unexpected and appalling to all that knew him.
