This is Kacey Clay interviewing the great F.X Mozart. I'm so honored of him to join me today. All right! Let's start the interview!
Me: In your early years, what made you interested in art?
F.X. Mozart: Well for me, music was just a natural talent. I began playing on piano and violin. I was taught by the great teachers; Hayden, Salieri, Hummel, and Albrechtsberger. In April, 1805 ( I think i was thirteen years old), I performed a concert in the Theater an der Wien.
I also performed Opus 1 Piano Quartet in G Minor in Vienna. It was a big success. I didnt make one mistake. It was a breath taking moment. I was about eleven years old when it printed. www.divox.com./composers/franz-xaver-mozart
Me: How did the people around you influence you to get interested and help build your talent as the artist that you are today?
F.X.Mozart: My father's friends, Hayden, Salieri, Hummel, and Albrechtsberger had helped me progress as the artist as i am at a young age. I guess since they were pretty close to my father and thought he had great talent, they wanted me to be the same and follow in his footsteps.
I had my first piano lessons in Prague from Franz Xaver Niemtschek. I stayed with the musical Dussek family in Prague in 1796. Then I returned to Vienna and met back up with my teachers Hayden, Hummel, Salieri, and Albrechtsberger. www.classicalarchives.com/composer/19867.html#tvf=tracks&tv=about
Me: How did you feel and what did you think when you entered the music world?
F.X. Mozart: There wasn't much feeling as i entered the music world. I just sat by the piano and started to play. I was a fast learner and had good talents. Like, my father i started to compose at a young age.
Me: Culture, the economy, and politics took a big part in your works. How did it affect you when you were working on your musics ?
F.X. Mozart: Growing up, our family had and economic crisis. After my father died, he left us in debt and poverty, but also left us with his most prized possessions. My mom, Constanze, took my mind off of that and started to prepare me and Carl for school www.answers.com/topic/franz-xaver-wolfgang-mozart. As i got older, my mother started to get ill. There was no medication. I was by her side as much as i could.
Me: What big accomplishments or goals did you use for your music life?
F.X. Mozart: My goals in life was to make music for the public to here. I didnt want the public to really see me as a figure as my father but as a individual. I mostly wanted to be known as me, Franz Xavier Wolfgang Mozart. But since i literally walk in my fathers footsteps, it was kind of hard to break away from the fear and comparison to my fathers works.
But, I had helping hands in my early age. Thanks to my fathers closest companions, Hayden, Hummel, Salieri, and Albrechtsberger. My mother, Constanze, was big help. She was the one that really entered me in the music world when she took me to one of her concerts.
Me: What opportunities stood out to you the most that made you think twice about your life and your music?
F.X. Mozart: Teaching students around the world was a big double take at looking back at life. I loved to teach. I started to teach at a young age but I only did it to make money. Then when I had the money that I needed, I just thought that I were done with the teaching business. I was always so busy with my concerts. But I tried to make time for the important things in life.
In 1808, I went to Lemberg, giving music lessons to the daughters of the Polish count Baworowski. Then i traveled to Rohatyn to teach von Janiszewski's daughters. But outside the teaching business, I performed local concerts, and played my and my father's pieces.
Me: What critical thinking decisions did you make to become a successful person?
F.X. Mozart: Decisions I had to make haunted me for days. I thought of just freelancing as a person for years but I couldnt do that for the reast of my life. I had to die with a purpose. My music. I never had to think twice when it came to the pieces i wrote. Except, my fear of having my music getting compared to my fathers. But besides that, teaching was sometimes on my mind. Even though I had been teaching for over twenty years, I sometimes broke out of the teaching business and went on tour with my mom or played locally in the concerts i had started.
Me: What big problems did you have to solve in order to be an artist?
F.X. Mozart: For me, I think i didnt go through as much problems. It was much of a climax for me. Everything was going great. I was performing locally. I had performed my many famous pieces, and also my fathers. I did a lot of teaching and touring arounf the world.
I had a sort of busy life.
What kinds of situations did you bump into as a artist and a person?
F.X. Mozart: As a artist, every piece that I wrote I thought I would get compared to my father. Since he was so great and will always be a big part in musical history, I always had fear in myself. I respected my father a lot, and even though I had no thoughts of him at all, I was just ashamed of what I have written.
As a person, I had many bumps. My mother was dying, my surviving brother was dying, and i would have no one else. But I kept traveling around the world so my music could be heard.
Me: What deep and personal stories that you remember best planned out how you became incredible in the arts?
F.X. Mozart: The deepest story that i have is my fathers http://www.mozartportraits.com/. It really bothers me that no memory of him comes to mind. But it never stopped me from what I wanted to do. Teach, compose,play piano, and be a musician. The brighter side to this story is that his music was magnifiicant. I wish I could just play with him so we could make beautiful music together.
His music is my prized possession. Its all I have left of him. My father's pieces spoke to everyone in a way that could never be relearned. It was so powerful and genius that it upsets me that my music can't be that grand as his. But as long as I am his son and giving these great talents, then thats all that matters
Bibliography
"Franz Xaver Mozart." n. pag. Web. 11 Apr 2011. www.divox.com/composers/franz-xaver-mozart.
"Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791-1844); AUT." (2008); n. pag. Web. 11 Apr 2011. www.classicalarchives.com/composer/19867.html#tvf=tracks&tv=about.
"Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart." n. pag. Web. 11 Apr 2011 www.answers.com/topic/franz-xaver-wolfgang-mozart.
"Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart ." n. pag Web. 11 Apr 2011.www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Wolfgang_Mozart#Biography.
"Constanze mozart." Web. 11 Apr 2011. http://www.mozartportraits.com/.
I read that your first instrument was the violin. How interesting, so was mine!
ReplyDeleteIt seems you and Frederic have much in common, I noticed that you, too, Frederic, visted Vienna! And, you both played the piano! Franz, you say you thought of travelling, that would have been a great choice! I travelled most of my life, and I loved it! Maybe we would have, "bumped" into eachother at some point.
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