LITtle Amadeus

Brother... don't. If it had not been for my father I probably would have been a composer. 🤔 classical memes and also Classicaloid to keep it fresh [I feel that I am a little more shitpost-y than the other Nan]

[humphul-deactivated20241215]

"READ MY DNI" no. use your block button like an adult. i'm not scrolling through the many-paragraphs-long pinned posts of every blog i reblog something from. if you insist certain types of people aren't welcome in the notes of your posts then it's your responsibility to curate that. or choose a closed social media platform like facebook or instagram. or go and live in a barn away from humanity if you really don't like sharing the world with people who are different from you

[voyageviolet]

I think that DNIs are a really clear example of the backwards understanding of boundaries that a lot of people have. Some people think it works like: "My boundary is that YOU can't do this thing I don't like"

When really it's more like: "My boundary is that if you do this thing that I've told you I don't like then I will remove myself from the situation"

The former does not work. The latter is more effective, it takes responsibility for yourself, and also it puts the power over your wellbeing into your hands and not in the hands of strangers who may or may not be malicious.

[hannahsbackroom]

Here comes the boy…. 🎵

Ludwig 😍

[hannahsbackroom]

A baby genius at work 🥰

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

🎵 🎶 🎵

[hannahsbackroom]

1990’s teen Wolfie ?

Or

Sweater weather Wolfie ?

Who wore it better?

[starfishies123]

I love them both 😻

[hannahsbackroom]

Who is cuter than the birthday boy??

NOBODY!

Happy Birthday Ludwig 🥳

250 years young 🥰

[hannahsbackroom]

Remembering

W.A. Mozart

December 5 1791

🌹 ❤️ 🎶

[hannahsbackroom]

Ludwig with pretty eyes as big as his fancy new hat 😍

[hannahsbackroom]

You know things are getting serious when Maestro takes his jacket off 😏💪

[hannahsbackroom]

Pretty boys deserve pretty sketches

💕 Wolfie and Ludwig 💕 my two favourite boys

[astryfiammante]

Mozart's Requiem, K 626: history of a composition

"The story of his last work is as obscure as it is strange."

- Franz Xaver Niemetschek, Mozart's first biographer.

The Legend

One day in the summer of 1791, an unidentified messenger visited Mozart and gave him an unsigned letter. The sender asked Mozart whether he would be willing to write a Requiem mass, giving him the freedom to state his terms of payment and delivery. An agreement was reached, to one condition: Mozart was never to attempt to figure out the identity of his client. He was later persued several times by the impatient messenger, who was often sent to ask about the progress of the commission, and seemed to appear out of nowhere "like a ghost". According to the legend, in his last weeks, Mozart convinced himself that the messenger and his mysterious master were not from the human world, and that he was writing the funeral mass for himself. Niemetschek recounts that, after Mozart's death, the incomplete work was collected by the unsettling messenger, who was never heard of again. All attempts to identify the man behind the commission failed.

History

The identity of the man who commissioned the Requiem is no longer a mystery. The reason behind Count Franz von Walsegg's request for anonymity was very simple: his intention was to commission Mozart a Requiem mass to honour the memory of his deceased wife, and to pass off the work as his own. One of his musicians revealed in his memoirs that the Count often paid composers to write music that he would later pass off as his own during his private concerts. However, there are several clues that suggest that Mozart may have been well aware not only of the Count's identity, but also of his intentions: this kind of patron-artist relationship was not unheard of at the time; moreover, one of the Count's personal musicians was Franz Anton Hoffmeister, who also happened to be Mozart's close friend and publisher and, like all the other musicians that worked for the Count, he was aware of his master's habit: "The scores he had obtained secretly he usually copied out with his own hand [...] We [the Count's musicians] had to guess the composer. Usually we guessed the count himself... he would smile at that and be pleased that he had (or so he believed) succeeded in mystifying us; but we laughed because he thought us so credulous." Another very close friend of Mozart's, Michael Puchberg, lived in the same house as the Count, which would have made it very difficult for Walsegg to keep such a transaction a secret. Additionally, Count Walsegg mostly commissioned flute quartets to his "ghostwriters", and it was later reported that Mozart was asked to state a sum for which he would have had to compose not only a Requiem mass, but also a certain number of quartets. It is very likely that the composer agreed to be generously paid in exchange for both his works and his silence. It is a well-known fact that Mozart never got around to finishing the Requiem (the only part of it that was entirely written by the composer is the Introitus), and that the mass was later completed by several of his pupils. His wife kept the mixed paternity of the composition a secret in order to collect the cash. Historical musicologist Piero Buscaroli goes as far as to suggest that Mozart, forced by his urgent financial situation to accept the Count's conditions, constantly put off composing the Requiem because the idea of writing it for someone else to claim its authorship was too dreadful for him, and that is the reason why he never managed to finish it. Be that as it may, it wasn't until 1793 that the Requiem was played by Count Walsegg's musicians, but soon after the composition was published under Mozart's authorship and Walsegg's ordeal was revealed, leaving him mortified to the point of threatening to take "serious measures" against Mozart's widow and the publishers. It has been suggested that this event may have partially inspired Alexander Pushkin to write his drama "Mozart and Salieri", which reinforced the rumours according to which Antonio Salieri was to blame for Mozart's death.

[hannahsbackroom]

Oh dear 😢

Teenagers certainly have a lot of feelings that are often difficult to navigate.

Ludwig is a good boy who tries very hard, but he isn’t sure if anyone - including his beloved Maestro - will ever notice?

Sometimes hiding in bed is the best comfort ❣️

[astryfiammante]

Let me turn this blog into a fashion blog real quick BUT look what I found 😂

[hannahsbackroom]

Just chillin’ - how ‘bout you?

😘

[hannahsbackroom]

The saddest boy 💔

[biscuitsarenice]

imagine… Alma Deutscher: Finding Cinderella

Musical prodigy Alma Deutscher aged 11 (seen here with younger sister Helen), is staging her first full-length opera, Cinderella.

Composer, pianist, violinist… Alma learned to read music before she could read words. She began playing the piano aged two and at four years old she was composing her own music.

[hungry-skin-vacant-meat]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kittiesatemypronouns]

SECONDED

[paint-me-colours]

Here’s a link to Alma’s YouTube channel. She’s incredibly talented, intelligent and well spoken. And a total sweetheart.

AlmaDeutscher

Alma Deutscher, composer, violinist, pianist

[hannahsbackroom]

A little throwback to some old designs

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😍

[starfishies123]

❤️