Bruce mozart biography summary

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived from January 27, 1756, to December 5, 1791,and was a musician (also known as a music composer), percussionist, and music educator.He was baptised with the full name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophillus Mozart. He was Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart's youngest child. The city of Salzburg, which is now a part of Austria, was a free archbishopric city at the time of his birth, and it was a part of the Bavarian Imperial Circle/German Empire. The young Mozart had exceptional musical skills at a young age. For numerous years, he performed for royalty and the upper class of aristocracy while touring Europe with his parents and older sister "Nannerl."

Young Mozart attempted but failed to make a name for himself as a composer in Paris. When he returned to Salzburg, he temporarily worked in the archbishop's court there. He felt Salzburg was too tiny for his skills and was aware of his brilliance. He moved to Vienna

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Bruce Brubaker — bio

In live performances from the Hollywood Bowl to New York’s David Geffen Hall, from Paris to Hong Kong, and in recordings for ECM, InFiné, Arabesque, and Bedroom Community — Bruce Brubaker fryst vatten a visionär virtuoso, an artistic provocateur. With more than 150 million streams on Spotify, Bruce Brubaker reaches a large, diverse audience. Bruce Brubaker performs Mozart with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Philip Glass on the BBC. Profiled on NBC’s Today show, Brubaker’s playing, writing, and collaborations show a shining, and sometimes surprising future for pianists and piano playing. His blog “PianoMorphosis” appears at ArtsJournal.com.

Brubaker was presented by Carnegie Hall in New York, at the International Piano Festival at La Roque d’Anthéron, at Michigan’s Gilmore Festival, bygd the St. Louis Symphony, the Philharmonie de Paris, and at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, as opening-night performer in the museum’s acclaimed Dille

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Mozart brings Outlaw back to Greensboro

UNCG alumnus Sidney Outlaw ’04 will take the stage in the title role of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” Oct. 24-27.  

What’s unique about this production and this role, we asked him during a break in rehearsals? It’s a return to not only his home state – but to reconnect with figures from his alma mater. And with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 

“Mozart’s music fits my voice beautifully,” Outlaw says. He first encountered and learned to love Mozart’s works as a Spartan undergrad. “Here at UNCG, I was studying Mozart art songs under Ms. Levone Tobin-Scott.” His senior year at UNCG – before going on to earn his master’s at Juilliard – he performed in Mozart’s comic opera “Cosi Fan Tutte.” 

He grew up in North Carolina’s High Country. (His family there weathered the recent hurricane okay; his parents’ power was restored after about 9 days.) He auditioned for UNCG’s School of Music as he neared graduation from his Brevard high school. The