Unfinished portrait by Joseph Lange, Mozart's brother-in-law
Wolfgang Mozart was born on this day in 1756. He died in poverty at the age of 35, but he had already written more than 600 pieces of music. Only 14 images were made of Mozart during his lifetime.
The young Mozart, by Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni.
A miniature of the 17-year-old Mozart.
“But he often gave the impression of being not entirely present, as if his mind were caught up in an invisible event. Portraits suggest a man aware of his separation from the world. In one, he wears a hard, distant look; in another, his face glows with sadness. In several pictures, his left eye droops a little, perhaps from fatigue. ‘As touchy as gunpowder,’ one friend called him. Nonetheless, he was generally well liked.”
Alex Ross, The Storm of Style
A family portrait with Mozart in the center, his sister Maria Anna, a painting on the wall of their mother, Anna Maria, who died in 1778, and his father Leopold. It was made by Johann Nepomuk della Croce in 1780 or 1781.
An engraving of Leopold on the violin, Mozart seated, and Maria Anna singing, by Jean-Baptiste Delafosse. The Italian baritone Luigi Bassi gave a brief description of Mozart: ‘Mr. Mozart was an extremely eccentric and absent-minded young man, but not without a certain spirit of pride. He was very popular with the ladies, in spite of his small size; but he had a most unusual face, and he could cast a spell on any woman with his eyes." From the Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia
A painting by Giuseppe Cignaroli
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