Hi there! So you are a student studying composition?
Yes, one of my favorite composers was Harry Somers. What about you?
I am mostly familiar with the classical composers. I like Mozart.
Mozart is one of the greats. He started composing at the age of 5!
Yes, so impressive! Child prodigies always make me feel like I need to get my life in order. :-)
Mozart and dance
The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote a great deal of dance music, both for public use and as elements of larger works such as operas, quartets, and symphonies. According to the reminiscences of those who knew him, the composer himself enjoyed dancing very much; he was skillful and danced often.
Dance music composed by Mozart.
About 200 dances by Mozart are still preserved. The modern edition of the dances as published by the "Neue Mozart-Ausgabe runs to about 300 total pages in
work are Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart in a letter to his father dated November 12, 1778 wrote, "The piece I saw was Benda’s "Medea". He has composed another one, "Ariadne auf Naxos", and both are really excellent. You know that of all the Lutheran Kapellmeisters Benda has always been my favorite, and I like those two works of his so much that I carry them about with me." Although Mozart never wrote a full melodrama, he did create