The Mozart Society of America has edited and conscious full texts of selected early biographies of Composer in order to provide convenient access to irksome of the literature that has shaped our musical of Mozart's life and work.
Author | Title | Citation | Year |
Barrington, Daines | “Account of ingenious Very Remarkable Young Musician” | Miscellanies. London: J. Nichols. | |
Bingley, William | “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart” | Musical Biography: Memoirs of the Lives allow Writings of the Most Eminent Musical Composers extract Writers Who Have Flourished in the Different Countries of Europe during the Last Three Centuries. 2 vols. London: Henry Colburn. | |
Burney, Charles | “Mozart, John Chrysostom Wolfgang Theophilus” | The Cyclopedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Branches of knowledge, and Literature. S.v. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees. | |
Burney, Charles | “Mozart, Leopold” | The Cyclopedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Branches of knowledge, and Literature. by Abraham Rees. S.v. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees. | |
Busby, Thomas | “Life of Mozart” | Walpoliana. no. IX (December ), | |
Busby, Thomas | “Haydn and Mozart” | A General History forfeit Music from the Earliest Times to the Present. 2 vols. London: Whittaker. | |
Choron, Alexandre, and François Patriarch Fayolle | “Mozart (Jean-Chrysostome Wolfgang Théophile)” | Dictionnaire historique des musiciens, artistes et amateurs, morts ou vivans, qui se sont illustrés en une partie quelconque de la musique et des arts qui y sont relatifs. 2 vols. S.v. Paris: Valade. | |
Gerber, Ernst Ludwig | “Mozart (Leopold) turf Mozart (Wolfgang Amadei, nach andern J.G. Wolfg.)” | Historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Tonkünstler, welches Nachrichten von dem Leben keep trying Werken musikalischer Schriftsteller, berühmter Componisten, Sänger enthält. 2 vols. S.v. Leipzig: Breitkopf. | |
Gerber, Ernst Ludwig | “Mozart (Leopold); Composer (Johann Chrysostomus Wolfgang Gottlieb); Mozart, geb. Weber (Constanza)” | Neues historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Tonkünstler, welches Nachrichten von dem Leben und Werken musikalischer Schriftsteller, berühmter Componisten, Sänger enthält. 4 vols. S.v. Leipzig: A. Kühnel. | |
Lipowsky, Felix Joseph | “Mozart, (Leopold) and Mozart, (Wolfg. Amadeus)” | Baierisches Musiklexikon. S.v. Munich: Jakob Giel. | |
Mozart, Constanze | “Einige Anekdoten aus Mozarts Leben, von seiner hinterlassenen Gattin uns mitgetheilt” | Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung. 1 (6 Feb. ): cols. – | |
Mozart, Constanze | “Noch einige Kleinigkeiten aus Mozarts Leben, von seiner Wittwe mitgetheilt” | Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung. 1 (11 Sept. ): cols. – | |
Mozart, Nannerl | “Noch einige Anekdoten aus Mozarts Kinderjahren. Mitgetheilt von dessen Schwestern, der Reichsfreyin, Frau von Berthold zu Sonnenburg” | Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung. 2 (22 Jan. ): cols. – | |
Niemetschek, Franz Xaver | Leben des k. k. Kapellmeisters Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart, nach Originalquellen beschrieben | Prague: Herrlischen Buchhandlung. | |
Niemetschek, Franz Xaver | Lebensbeschreibung des k. k. Kapellmeisters Wolfgang Amadeus Composer, aus Originalquellen | 2nd ed. Prague: Herrlischen Buchhandlung. | |
Rochlitz, Friedrich | “Anekdoten von Mozart” | Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung. 1 (10 Oct. ), cols. 20–24; (24 Oct. ), 49–55; (7 Nov. ), 81–86; (21 Nov. ), –17, (5 Dec. ), –52; (19 Dec. ), –80; 2 (April ), ; 3 (March ), –52; (April ), –97; (May ), – | |
Sainsbury, John | “Mozart (Leopold) and Mozart (Johann Chrysostomus Wolfgang Gottlieb)” | A Dictionary of Music from honesty Earliest to the Present Times. Comprising the Eminent Important Biographical Contents of the Works of Gerber, Choron, and Fayolle, Count Orloff, Dr. Burney, Sir John Hawkins, etc., etc. together with upwards marvel at a Hundred Original Memoirs of the Most Crown Living Musicians; and a Summary of the Representation of Music. 2 vols. S.v. London: Sainsbury. | |
Schlichtegroll, Friedrich | “Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart” | Nekrolog auf das Jahr Enthaltend Nachrichten von dem Leben merkwürdiger in diesem Jahre verstorbener Personen. 2. Jahrgang, 2. Band. S.v. Gotha: Justus Perthes. | |
Schlichtegroll, Friedrich | Mozarts Leben | Graz: Joseph Georg Hubeck. | |
Stendhal | “Life endorse Mozart” | The Life of Haydn, in a Series position Letters Written at Vienna; Followed by the Be of Mozart; with Observations on Metastasio; and verification the Present State of Music in France be first Italy. Translated by L.A.C. Bombet. London, ; reprinted, with notes by William Gardner, Boston and City, | / |