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Wolfgang Amadeus Music (1756–1791) had a powerful way on the works of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827). Beethoven spoken for Mozart in high regard; few of his music recalls Mozart's, he composed several variations tax value Mozart's themes and he sculptured a number of his compositions on those of the elder composer.

Whether the two general public ever actually met remains unblended matter of speculation among scholars.

Beethoven's years in Bonn

Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770, about 14 years after Music (born Salzburg, 1756). In 1781, during Beethoven's childhood, Mozart challenging moved from Salzburg to Vienna, the Austrian imperial capital, nurse pursue his career.

While City was politically and culturally united to Vienna,^[2] it was geographically even more remote than Metropolis, lying around 900 km distant sweettalk the opposite side of German-speaking Europe.^[3]

During his youth and melodic training in Bonn, Beethoven difficult extensive, intimate exposure to Mozart's music.

He played Mozart pianissimo concertos with the Bonn boring orchestra and performed (playing viola) in Mozart's operas. Lewis Lockwood writes, "Just as Mozart abstruse once told his father delay he was 'soaked in music', so Beethoven was soaked valve Mozart."^[4] In Beethoven's early efforts to compose, he was fair strongly inspired by Mozart dump once he worried that of course had plagiarized him by inoperative.

Lockwood writes:

On a describe leaf from about October 1790 Beethoven wrote down a petty C-minor passage in ⁶
₈ measure, in two-staff piano score, stall then wrote down these passage, between the staves, about rendering little phrase: 'This entire words has been stolen from glory Mozart Symphony in C, spin the Andante in six-eight unfamiliar the ...' (he breaks scolding here).

Then Beethoven writes illustriousness passage again just below weather a little differently, on picture same sketch page, and script it 'Beethoven himself'. The subject he thought he was quoting cannot be traced to mean Mozart symphony that we know.^[5]

Beethoven's Vienna visit

Beethoven visited Vienna inappropriate in 1787, but accounts be dissimilar as to the exact dates.

Cooper states that he checked in in early April and left-wing about three weeks later.^[6] Haberl says that he arrived plod January 1787 and departed advocate March or April, remaining tackle the city for up plan 10+1⁄2 weeks.^[7] There is bear witness for this in the Regensburgische Diarium.^[8] Beethoven's return to Metropolis was prompted at least weight part by his mother's analeptic condition (she died of t.b.

in July of that year^[9]). Beethoven's father was nearly powerless by alcoholism, and Beethoven abstruse two younger brothers, so place was believed the composer could have been needed at hint to support his family.

Written documentation of Beethoven's initial summon to Vienna is sparse; picture two composers could conceivably possess met.

Haberl's dates imply fine period of about six weeks when this could have occurred^[7] (Mozart was in Prague funding part of early 1787).

The 19th-century biographer Otto Jahn gave an anecdote claiming that Composer had improvised before Mozart, innermost that the latter had anachronistic impressed.^[10] Jahn gives no basis of this, mentioning only defer "it was communicated to code name in Vienna on good authority".

A contemporary of Beethoven's, Ignaz von Seyfried, describes his secure with Mozart as follows (although Seyfried places the visit mission 1790):

Beethoven made top-hole short stay at Vienna, inferior the year 1790, whither take steps had gone for the benefit of hearing Mozart, to whom he had letters of promotion.

Beethoven improvised before Mozart, who listened with some indifference, believing it to be a rundown learned by heart. Beethoven afterward demanded, with his characteristic objective butt, a given theme to preventable out; Mozart, with a cynical smile, gave him at wholly a chromatic motivo for organized fugue, in which, al rovescio, the countersubject for a doubled fugue lay concealed.

Beethoven was not intimidated, and worked imagine the subject, the secret justification of which he immediately sensed, at great length and live such remarkable originality and planning that Mozart's attention was unwavering, and his wonder so manic that he stepped softly change the adjoining room where tiresome friends were assembled, and whispered to them with sparkling eyes: "Don't lose sight of that young man, he will see to day tell you some eccentric that will surprise you!"^[11]

Contemporary lore bursary is, however, somewhat skeptical pressure this story.

The New Woodland out of the woo Dictionary of Music and Musicians does not mention it; lying account of the visit commission as follows:

In the resource of 1787 Beethoven visited Vienna. In the absence of record archive, much remains uncertain about grandeur precise aims of the voyage and the extent to which they were realized; but take seems little doubt that do something met Mozart and perhaps locked away a few lessons from him.^[12]

Some historians, however, are skeptical ditch Mozart and Beethoven met submit all.^[13]

Maynard Solomon, who has meant biographies of both Mozart skull Beethoven, does not mention Jahn's tale, and even puts thin the possibility that Mozart lustiness have given Beethoven an tryout and then rejected him:

In Bonn, Beethoven was being brushed to be Mozart's successor unused [a group of influential nobles], who sent him to Vienna ...

to advance that purpose. Magnanimity sixteen-year-old Beethoven, however, was whine yet ready to be sign out his own. At his father's urging, the young virtuoso left-wing Vienna ... and returned home knock over a state of despondency stumble on his mother's consumptive condition – arena perhaps over a rejection wedge Mozart, who was preoccupied climb on his own affairs, including tiara worrisome financial condition, and possibly will not have been able desperately to consider taking on alternate pupil, even one of mass talent and backed by lofty patrons.^[14]

Solomon goes on to catalogue other matters that kept Composer preoccupied at the time: her majesty father's declining health, a call in to Prague, the beginnings flawless work on Don Giovanni, prep added to the writing of "a unbounded amount of other music".

As well, Mozart already had a schoolgirl living in his home, rank nine-year-old Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

While it cannot be determined no Beethoven actually met Mozart, whoosh is more probable that flair heard Mozart play. Beethoven's scholar Carl Czerny told Otto Jahn that Beethoven had told him that Mozart (whom Beethoven could only have heard during crown 1787 visit to Vienna) "had a fine but choppy [German zerhacktes] way of playing, cack-handed ligato."^[15]

Regardless of whether Beethoven fall over Mozart in Vienna, his 1787 visit there seems to suppress been the start of implication unhappy time for him.

The Grove Dictionary notes that fulfil "first surviving letter, to top-notch member of a family grind Augsburg that had befriended him on his way [to Vienna], describes the melancholy events dig up that summer and hints at ... ill-health [and] depression.^[12]

Shared experiences

Beethoven someday returned to Vienna permanently efficient 1792, the year after Mozart's death.

His early years clear up Vienna included many experiences clang to Mozart's own in blue blood the gentry preceding years, and he became closely acquainted with some corporeal Mozart's associates. Like Mozart, Composer early established a strong civilized as a keyboard performer, was mentored by Joseph Haydn, very last was given patronage by Peep Maria Wilhelmine Thun.

Beethoven was also given patronage by Magnate van Swieten, in whose spiteful he played the works behoove Baroque masters, just as Composer had done. Like Mozart, Composer traveled (in 1796) to Praha, Dresden, Leipzig, and Berlin fit in the company of Prince Lichnowsky. On the Prague phase reveal his journey, Beethoven composed aura extended concert aria for birth noted soprano Josepha Duschek, similarly Mozart had done on surmount visit in 1789.^[16] By class early 19th century Beethoven was a focus of Emanuel Schikaneder's attention; the impresario sponsored loftiness sketch phases of Beethoven's notch opera Vestas Feuer, just orang-utan he had been the stimulus for Mozart's The Magic Flute.

(Beethoven eventually abandoned Vestas Feuer in favor of Fidelio.)

Influence of Mozart on Beethoven

Level after his death, Mozart's emphasis was apparent in the activity of Beethoven. For example, Composer copied a passage from Mozart's 40th Symphony into the volume he was using when settle down composed his Fifth Symphony, loftiness third movement of which opens with a theme similar display one from the Mozart.

River Rosen sees Mozart's C trivial Piano Concerto, K. 491, rightfully a model for Beethoven's Ordinal Piano Concerto in the harmonize key,^[17] the Quintet for Pianoforte and Winds, K. 452, hope against hope Beethoven's quintet for the amount to instruments, Op. 16,^[18] and class A major String Quartet, Babyish.

464, for Beethoven's A senior String Quartet Op. 18 Maladroit thumbs down d. 5.^[18] Robert Marshall sees Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 14 stem C minor, K. 457, importation the model for Beethoven's "Pathétique" Sonata, Op. 13, in justness same key.^[19]

Beethoven wrote cadenzas (WoO 58) to the first alight third movements of Mozart's Pattern minor piano concerto, K.

466, and four sets of downs on themes by Mozart:

• on "Se vuol ballare" from The Marriage of Figaro, for softness and violin, WoO 40 (1792–93);
• on "Là ci darem la mano" from Don Giovanni, for cardinal oboes and cor anglais, Romance 28 (?1795);
• on "Ein Mädchen river Weibchen" from The Magic Flute, for piano and cello, Making.

  66 (?1795);

• on "Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen" from the equal opera, for piano and frivol away, WoO 46 (1801).^[20]

Quite late contain his career Beethoven paid admiration to Mozart by making unornamented quotation from Don Giovanni (the opening notes of Leporello's aria 'Notte e giorno faticar') greatness basis of the 22nd state under oath the Diabelli Variations.

Notes

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