YOUNG MOZART AND MUSIC SCHOOL STUDENTS: FRIENDSHIP THROUGH THE CENTURIES

      Wolfgang Mozart gave us not only his great music, but also opened for us (as Columbus opened the way to  America) the path to the heights of musical excellence from an unusually early childhood. The world does not yet know another such luminary of music, who showed his talent at such an early age. “The Triumphant Prodigy.” The phenomenon of children’s bright talent.

     Young Wolfgang sends us a signal from his 1th century: “Fear not, my young friends, dare. Young years are not a barrier… I know that for sure. We young people are capable of many things that adults don’t even know about.” Mozart openly shares the secret of his phenomenal success: he found three golden keys that could open the way to the temple of Music. These keys are (2) heroic persistence in achieving the goal, (3) skill and (XNUMX) having a good pilot nearby who will help you enter the world of music. For Mozart, his father was such a pilot*,  an excellent musician and gifted teacher. The boy said about him with respect: “After God, only dad.” Wolfgang was an obedient son. Your music teacher and your parents will show you the path to success. Follow their instructions and perhaps you will be able to overcome gravity…

       Young Mozart could not even imagine that in 250 years we, modern boys and girls, would enjoy the wonderful world of animation, explode your imagination in 7D cinemas, immerse yourself in the world of computer games…  So, has the world of music, fabulous for Mozart, faded forever against the background of our wonders and lost its appeal?   Not at all!

     It turns out, and many people don’t even realize this, that modern science and technology, capable of launching unique devices into space, penetrating the nanoworld, reviving animals that were completely extinct millennia ago, cannot synthesize  musical works comparable in their talent to  world classic. The most powerful computer in the world, in terms of the quality of artificially “created” music, is not even capable of approaching the masterpieces created by the geniuses of past centuries. This applies not only to The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro, written by Mozart in adulthood, but also to his opera Mithridates, King of Pontus, composed by Wolfgang at the age of 14…

     * Leopold Mozart, court musician. He played the violin and organ. He was a composer and led a church choir. Wrote a book, “An Essay on the Fundamentals of Violin Playing.” His great-grandfathers were skilled builders. He carried out extensive teaching activities.

Having heard these words, many boys and girls will want, at least out of curiosity, to look deeper into the World of Music. It is interesting to understand why Mozart spent almost his entire life in another dimension. And whether it was 4D, 5D or 125  dimension – Dimention?

They say that very often  Wolfgang’s huge fiery eyes seemed to stop  see everything happening around. His gaze became wandering, absent-minded. It seemed that the musician’s imagination carried him away  somewhere very far from the real world…  And vice versa, when the Master transitioned from the image of a composer to the role of a virtuoso performer, his gaze became unusually sharp, and the movements of his hands and body became extremely collected and clear. Was he returning from somewhere? So, where does it come from? You can’t help but remember Harry Potter…

        To someone who wants to penetrate the secret world of Mozart, this may seem like a simple matter. Nothing is easier! Log on to the computer and listen to his music!  It turns out that everything is not so simple. Listening to music is not very difficult. It is more difficult to penetrate the World of Music (even as a listener), to understand the full depth of the author’s thoughts. And many are wondering. Why do some people “read” messages encrypted in music, while others don’t? So what should we do? After all, neither money, nor weapons, nor cunning will help open the treasured door…

      Young Mozart was incredibly lucky with the golden keys. His heroic persistence in mastering music was formed on the basis of a sincere, deep interest in music, which surrounded him from birth. Listening at the age of three to how his father began to teach his older sister to play the clavier (she was then, like some of us, seven years old), the boy tried to comprehend the secrets of sounds. I tried to understand why my sister produced euphony, while he produced only unrelated sounds. Wolfgang was not forbidden to sit for hours at the instrument, search for and put together harmonies, and grope for the melody. Without realizing it, he comprehended the science of harmony of sounds. He improvised and experimented. I learned to remember the melodies that my sister was learning. Thus, the boy learned independently, without being forced to do what he loved. They say that in his childhood, Wolfgang, if he was not stopped, could play the clavier all night long.          

      The father noticed his son’s early interest in music. From the age of four, he sat Wolfgang next to him at the harpsichord and in a playful way taught him to produce sounds that formed the melodies of minuets and plays. His father helped strengthen young Mozart’s friendship with the World of Music. Leopold did not interfere with his son sitting for a long time at the harpsichord and attempting to construct harmonies and melodies. Being a very stern man, the father nevertheless never violated his son’s fragile connection with music. On the contrary, he encouraged his interest in every possible way  to music.                             

     Wolfgang Mozart was very talented**. We have all heard this word – “talent”. In general terms we understand its meaning. And we often wonder whether I myself am talented or not. And if talented, then how much… And what exactly am I talented at?   Scientists cannot yet answer with certainty all questions regarding the mechanism of origin of this phenomenon and the possibility of its transmission by inheritance. Maybe some of you young people will have to solve this mystery…

**The word comes from the ancient measure of weight “talent”. In the Bible there is a parable about three slaves who were given one such coin. One buried the talent in the ground, the other exchanged it. And the third one multiplied. For now, it is generally accepted that “Talent is outstanding abilities that are revealed with the acquisition of experience, forming a skill.” Many experts believe that talent is given at birth. Other scientists experimentally came to the conclusion that almost every person is born with the inclinations of some kind of talent, but whether he develops it or not depends on many circumstances and factors, the most important of which in our case is the music teacher. By the way, Mozart’s father, Leopold, not unreasonably believed that no matter how great Wolfgang’s talent was, serious results could not be achieved without hard work  impossible. His serious attitude towards his son’s education is evidenced, for example, by an excerpt from his letter: “…Every lost minute is lost forever…”!!!

     We have already learned a lot about the young Mozart. Now let’s try to understand what kind of person he was, what kind of there was character. Young Wolfgang was a very kind, amiable, cheerful and cheerful boy. He had a very sensitive, vulnerable heart. Sometimes he was too trusting and good-natured. He was characterized by amazing sincerity. There are known cases when little Mozart, after another triumphant performance, in response to praise addressed to him by titled persons, came close to them, looked into their eyes and asked: “Do you really love me.  Do you love him very, very much?  »

        He was an extremely enthusiastic boy. Passionate to the point of oblivion. This was especially evident in his attitude towards music studies. Sitting at the clavier, he forgot about everything in the world, even food and time.  By his strength  pulled away from the musical instrument.

     You may be interested to know that at this age Wolfgang was free from excessive pride, self-importance and feelings of ingratitude. He had an easy disposition. But what he was irreconcilable with (this trait manifested itself with all its force in a more mature age) was  This means a disrespectful attitude towards music on the part of others.

       Young Mozart knew how to be a good, devoted friend. He made friends selflessly, very sincerely. Another thing is that he had practically no time and opportunity to communicate with his peers…

      At the age of four and five, Mozart, thanks to his hard work and determination with the enormous support of his father  managed to become a virtuoso performer of a large number of musical works. This was facilitated by the boy’s phenomenal ear for music and memory. Soon he showed the ability to improvise.

     At the age of five, Wolfgang began composing music, and his father helped transfer it into a music notebook. When he was seven years old, two of Mozart’s opuses were first published, which were dedicated to the daughter of the Austrian king Victoria and Countess Tesse. At the age of eleven, Wolfgang wrote Symphony No. 6 in F major (the original score is kept in the library of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow). Wolfgang and his sister Maria, together with the orchestra, performed this work for the first time in Brno. In memory of that concert, today a competition of young pianists whose age does not exceed eleven years is held annually in this Czech city. It was at this same age that Wolfgang, at the request of the Austrian Emperor Joseph, composed the opera “The Imaginary Shepherdess.”

      When Wolfgang, at the age of six, achieved great success in playing the harpsichord, his father decided to demonstrate his son’s extraordinary talent in other cities and countries of Europe. This was the tradition in those days. In addition, Leopold began to think about finding a good place as a musician for his son. I thought about the future.

     Wolfgang’s first tour (nowadays it would be called a tour) was made to the German city of Munich and lasted three weeks. It was quite successful. This inspired my father and soon the trips resumed. During this period, the boy learned to play the organ, violin, and a little later the viola. The second tour lasted for three whole years. With my father, mother and sister Maria, I visited and gave concerts for the aristocracy in many cities in Germany, France, England and Holland. After a short break, a tour took place to musical Italy, where Wolfgang stayed for more than a year. In general, this touring life lasted about ten years. During this time there was triumph and sorrow, great happiness and tedious work (concerts often lasted five hours). The world learned about the talented virtuoso musician and composer. But there was something else: the death of my mother, serious illnesses. Wolfgang got sick  scarlet fever, typhoid fever (he was between life and death for two months), smallpox (he lost his sight for nine days).  “Nomadic” life in youth, frequent changes of place of residence in adulthood,  and most importantly, his unearthly talent gave Albert Einstein the basis to call Mozart “a guest on our land, both in a high, spiritual sense, and in an ordinary, everyday sense…”   

         On the verge of entering adulthood, at the age of 17, Mozart could be proud of the fact that he had already written four operas, several spiritual works, thirteen symphonies, 24 sonatas and much more. The dominant feature of his creations began to crystallize – sincerity, a combination of strict, clear forms with deep emotionality. A unique synthesis of Austrian and German songwriting with Italian melodiousness emerged. Just a few years later he is recognized as the greatest melodist. The deep penetration, poetry and refined beauty of Mozart’s music prompted P.I. Tchaikovsky to characterize the Master’s work as follows:  “In my deep conviction, Mozart is the highest culminating point to which beauty has reached in the field of music. No one made me cry, tremble with delight, from the consciousness of my closeness to something that we call an ideal, like him.”

     The little enthusiastic and very hardworking boy turned into a recognized composer, many of whose works became masterpieces of symphonic, operatic, concert and choral music.     

                                            “And he left us far away

                                             Flashing like a comet

                                             And its light merged with the heavenly

                                             Eternal light                             (Goethe)    

     Flew off into space? Dissolved in universal music? Or did he stay with us? … Be that as it may, Mozart’s grave has not yet been found…

      Haven’t you noticed that some curly-haired boy in jeans and a T-shirt sometimes wanders around the “music room” and timidly looks into your office? Little Wolfgang “listens” to your music and wishes you success.