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INTERVIEW WITH FRANZ XAVIER WOLFGANG MOZART

 

        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.

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Wolfgang_Mozart#Biography

 

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/.

Me (left) and my brother Carl (right) are taking a picture together.
Hans Hansen, Vienna, 1800

                                                     
                                                      Me in my old years.
                                                      "Franz Xavier Wolfgang Mozart."
                                                      Web. 23 Mar 2011
                                                      <mozartportraits.com>
                                     
                                                      
My loving mother Constanze. She has been there for me since the day she died. I love her so much and i will never forget what a wonderful person she really is.
"Constanze Mozart Nissen." 
 Web. 23 Mar 2011.
 <mozartportraits.com>.

                                                     

My talented father Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Even though I don't no him, it feels like i do. I play his music all the time and it inspires me to become a better composer, teacher, and musician. He will always be in my memory.

"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart."

 Web. 23 Mar 2011.
<mozartpotraits.com>

This is a piece I composed. Piano Concerto in C major. A good piece. I really took my time on this one.
"F.X Mozart - Piano Concerto in C major,
Op.14-Second Movement [Part 2/3]." youtube.com.
Web. 23 Mar 2011

                                          
This is the house I lived in. I was only their when I was young, but then I used to travel the world because of teaching and performing in concerts. This was where my father composed his first piece. Surely, his father, Leopold had to help because he was too small to write it.
"Mozarts Geburtshaus." Web. 24 Mar 2011
<flickr.com>

                                         
This is my grandfather, Leopold Mozart. He taught my father in his early years and his daughter Nannerl.
They went everywhere as he performed his music. I wish I had my father to teach me. But i am certainly greatful of what gifts they have gaven me.
"Leopold Mozart." Web. 24 Mar 2011.
<mozartportraits.com>.

Here's another one of my pieces. I love this. It has so much liveliness to it. Piano Quartet in G minor.
"Franz Xaver Mozart - Piano Quartet in G
minor Op. 1: Mov. 1." Web. 24 mar 2011.
<youtube.com>.

                                         
My brother Carl Mozart. He had a passion for playing music but Constanze, my mother, pulled him away from the music world and pushed him to the business world. My mom  always thought that i was the better musician when it came to Carl and I.
"Carl Mozart." Lessing Photo Archive. Web. 24
Mar 2011. <lessing-photo.com>.

Aahh! The Violin Sonata Bb major! A wonderful piece. As if it were yesterday, I was composing that.
"Franz Xaver Mozart - Violin Sonata Bb - major
op.7 - 1st mov - G.Janusevicius &
A.Kostecki." Web. 24 Mar 2011.
<youtube.com>                                         

                                          

Hallo! My name is Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, also known as F.X. Mozart, W.A Mozart Son, or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Jr. What a mouthful! I was born in Vienna, Austria on July 26, 1791. I'm the youngest child of six children to my father, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and my loving mother Constanze. I'm a composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher. I love to teach. I teach students all over the world. It's the most exciting besides playing me and my fathers pieces. Just like my father, I started to compose at an early age. Although I like to play my fathers pieces, I question my talent and fear that whatever I compose, it would get compared to my fathers famous pieces. But besides that I likes to compose romantic music. It's amazing how I can compose what I am felling. Romance is always in the air and I can express it however I want even if I'm not married. My most memorable moment in my early ages wwas when I was thirteen-years-old, making my debut in Vienna in a concert in the Theater an der Wien. I loved every bit of it. Oh well. I have to go. I'm performing Piano Concerto No.1 in C major at a local concert. Come if you want.