Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart

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Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (painting by Karl Gottlieb Schweikart , Lemberg, around 1825)
The two sons of Wolfgang Amadé and Constanze Mozart: Carl Thomas (r) and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (l) (painting by Hans Hansen , Vienna 1800)

Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (born July 26, 1791 in Vienna , † July 29, 1844 in Karlsbad , Bohemia ) was an Austrian composer and piano virtuoso .

Life

Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart was the youngest and next to Carl Thomas the second surviving child of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; the claim last made by Wolfgang Hildesheimer that he was the biological son of Franz Xaver Süßmayr is more to be seen in connection with the defamatory portrayal of Constanze Mozart in the older literature and cannot be proven. Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart's nickname was Wolfgang; In official documents, autographs and editions of his work, however, he appeared under the pseudonym "WA Mozart Sohn" (or "fils" or "figlio"), because his mother had made him a musician as a toddler. For this purpose he received composition and instrumental lessons in his hometown of Vienna from Johann Nepomuk Hummel , Antonio Salieri , Johann Georg Albrechtsberger , Sigismund von Neukomm and others.

After the death of his father, his mother brought him and his brother Carl Thomas to the estate of Josepha and Franz Xaver showerk , the Vila Bertramka near Prague.

In 1808 he went as a music teacher to a noble family near Lemberg ( Galicia ). After this and another similar employment relationship ended, he settled in Lemberg in 1813 and worked there as a teacher and composer. From Lviv he went on an extensive concert tour from 1818 to 1821, which took him across Europe and which was followed by a stay in Vienna. In 1822 he returned to Lemberg, to which he was mainly attracted by his love for a married aristocrat, Josephine Baroni-Cavalcabò, born. Countess Castiglioni (1786-1860), was bound. He was a co-founder of the Lviv Music Association and organized numerous concerts in the city, including a performance of his father's requiem on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of his death on December 5, 1826 in the Lviv St. George's Cathedral, which he himself directed. As a respected pianist and teacher he worked in Lemberg until 1838. One of his students was the composer Julie Baroni-Cavalcabò, married. Weber von Webenau , later married. de Britto (1813-1887).

He spent the last years of his life in Vienna, where he taught, among other things, the pianist Ernst Pauer (1826–1905), who worked in London from 1851 . Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart died during a cure in Karlsbad , where he was also buried.

Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart's work is almost forgotten today. He could not do justice to the vague demands associated with the idealized image of his father, and with increasing age he must have suffered more and more from having taken up the same profession as his father. Like his father, he joined the Freemasons' Union and was accepted into the Lodge at the Hall of Persistence in Warsaw .

Like his brother, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart died unmarried and left no descendants; his sole heir was his lover Josephine Baroni-Cavalcabò, the mother of his pupil Julie. In accordance with the deceased's wish, Josephine Baroni-Cavalcabò gave parts of the estate to the Mozarteum in Salzburg. The direct line of Mozart died out in the middle of the 19th century. When Carl Thomas Mozart is indeed often rumored of an illegitimate daughter, but could they identify with probability bordering on certainty as Costanza Casella, daughter of a Milan-based officer.

Funerary inscription

Franz Grillparzer wrote the following obituary for Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart:

The grave of Franz X. Wolfgang Mozart in Karlsbad
At the grave of Mozart's son
So you finally went there
Where the spirit drew you forever
And you hold the great man there
That flew to the sun like an eagle.
That no one should measure your work
Who does not know the sting of longing,
You were the grieving cypress
Your father’s monument.
What so many only live on
What pride and madness like to hear
It was my father's name
What disturbed your energy germ.
Gifted to soar higher
One thought stopped your flight;
"What would my father say?"
To inhibit you was enough.
And if you managed to create
What many others are honored
You yourself rejected it, hardly sung
As not worth the name of Mozart .
Now open up to the good son
The great father's arms wide
He gives the child loyalty as a reward,
A part of you immortality.
The name, to you a pain companion,
From today he changes into happiness;
Sounds of Salzburg's arch colossi
An echo back for you too.
When the crowd gathers there
Awesome silence banishes all,
Then who the name Mozart stammers,
Called yours too.

Works

Orchestral music

  • Sinfonia, D major

Piano concerts

  • No. 1, C major, op.14
  • No. 2, E flat major, op.25

Chamber music

  • Piano quartet, G minor, op.1
  • 6 pieces for flute and 2 horns, op.11
  • Rondo [recte: Sonata movement] for flute and piano, E minor

Duo sonatas for strings and piano

  • Sonata for violin and piano, B flat major, op.7
  • Sonata for violin and piano, F major, op.15
  • Sonata for violin or violoncello and piano, E major, op.19

Piano works (selection)

  • Piano Sonata, G major, op.10
  • Variations on a Romance by Méhul , op.23
  • 2 variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli as part II of the Patriotic Art Association (published 1824)
Polonaises
  • 6 Polonaises mélancoliques, op.17
  • 4 Polonaises mélancoliques, op.22
  • 2 Polonaises, op.24

Vocal works

  • Aria buffa for the opera Der Schauspieldirektor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, op.13
  • The first day of spring , cantata for solos, choir and orchestra, op.28
  • Festival choir for the unveiling of the Mozart monument in Salzburg , op.30

Songs

  • 8 German songs op.5
    • Loneliness
    • The piano
    • The amusing one
    • From the Greek
    • Death grave song
    • my girl
    • Maylied
    • The secret
  • 6 songs op.9
    • The loving girl
    • To brittle beauty
    • No!
    • The butterfly on a forget-me-not
    • Complain to the moon
    • Harvest song
  • Romance (In which father halls rested), op.12
  • 6 songs, op.21
    • From the French by JJRousseau
    • sigh
    • The delight
    • To them
    • To the streams
    • Le meringue
  • To Emma, ​​op.24
  • 3 German songs op.27
    • To the evening star
    • Find the
    • Bertha's song of the night
  • Spring greeting op.29
  • memory
  • Announcing angels of God, Christmas carol (arrangement of a duet from the cantata op.28)

Recordings

  • Songs on The Other Mozart ; Barbara Bonney (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Decca 2006.
  • Songs on Mozart - songs from three generations ; Konrad Jarnot (baritone), Alexander Schmalcz (piano), Oehms 2006.
  • Piano Concertos No. 1 & 2 (opp. 14 & 25); Henri Sigfridsson (piano), Gunhard Mattes (conductor), INSO Lemberg , Novalis 2005.
  • Piano Concerto No. 2 (op.25); Philippe Entremont (piano), Sebastian Knauer, Dutch Chamber Orchestra, Berlin Classics 2000.
  • Sinfonia del Sig. Wolfgango Mozart figlio on Encores! ; Gunhard Mattes (conductor), INSO Lemberg, Novalis 2006.
  • Sonata for cello and piano, E major (op.19) and Rondo for flute & piano ; Manon Liu Winter (piano), Christian Gurtner (flute), Tamas Varga (cello), Cavalli Records 2004.
  • Sonata for cello and piano, E major (op. 19) on cello music about Mozart ; Wolfgang Boettcher (cello), Ursula Trede-Boettcher (piano), RBM 1996.
  • Piano Works Vol.1 : 6 Polonaises mélancoliques (op.17), 4 Polonaises mélancoliques (op.22), 2 Polonaises mélancoliques (op.26), Rondo in F major, Susanne von Laun (fortepiano), Musicaphon (2010)
  • Piano Works Vol.2 : 7 variations in D minor (op.18), 5 variations in C major (op.23), Rondo in E flat major (op.25), 7 variations in F major (op.2 ), 7 variations in D major (op.16), Susanne von Laun (hammer piano), Musicaphon 2012
  • Piano Works Vol.3 : Sonata in G major (op. 10), Marche in G major (FXWM: VII: 9), Länders in F major (FXWM: VII: 19), German dance in D minor (FXWM: VII: 23 ), Fantasia and Krakowiak (FXWM: 30), Andantino A major (FXWM: VII: 41), Susanne von Laun (hammer piano), Musicaphon 2014
  • 6 Polonoises mélancoliques ( op.17 ), Susanna Artzt, Gramola 2006
  • Piano Works Vol.4: Rondeau in F major ( op.4 ) Variations in A major (op.3), F major (op.6), G minor (op.8), G major (op.13) , C major (FXWX VII: 35), Allegretto F major (FXWX VII: 39), Allegretto G major (FXWX VII: 40) Susanne von Laun (hammer piano), Musicaphon 2016

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baptismal Book - 01-100 | 01., Vienna - St. Stephan | Vienna, rk. Archdiocese (eastern Lower Austria and Vienna) | Austria | Matricula Online. Retrieved November 1, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Mozart, Franz Xaver Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and piano virtuoso
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1844
Place of death Carlsbad , Bohemia