Piano Music - Leopold Mozart

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📖 "Johann Georg Leopold Mozart, father of Wolfgang Mozart, was the son of a bookbinder of small income, and devoted himself to the study of jurisprudence at the University of Salzburg, earning money for that purpose by teaching music. Lack of means compelled him, however, to enter the service of Count Thurn, Canon of Salzburg, who pro-cured for him occupation as violinist in the archbishop's band. His previous musical training must have been excellent, for he was not only an able violinist and teacher of that instrument, but active as a composer, and so was named " Hofkompositeur " to the archbishop, and in 1762, Vizekapellmeister. In 1747 he married Anna Maria Pertlin, a native of Salzburg, from whom Wolfgang inherited a humour peculiar to the Salzburgers, one bordering on the low comic. Of the seven children of that marriage five died before they were one year old ; only Nannerl and Wolfgang {see below) grew up. The parents devoted themselves earnestly to the education and musical training of their gifted offspring; their life, henceforth, was determined by that of the children; M. even ceased composing when Wolfgang commenced. This renunciation must not be undervalued, for he was a fruitful composer, wrote much sacred music, symphonies, serenades, concertos, divertimentos, twelve oratorios, operas, pantomimes, and all kinds of pieces d'occasion ; of these the sacred works were especially esteemed. The following appeared in print : a divertissement, " Musikalische Schlittenfahrt ; " six trio sonatas for two violins with basso contitmo, and twelve clavier pieces (" Der Morgen und der Abend "). A work of greater importance is his " Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule," printed in the year in which his celebrated son was born (1756), and with the exception of that of Geminiani (1740) probably the oldest ; but, in any case, it was the first generally recognised Method for the violin (2nd improved edition 1770, and, after that, frequently republished up to 1804: in French by Roser, 1770, and by Woldemar, iSoi ; also in Dutch)."
Hugo Riemann Dictionary of Music (1896)

Leopold Mozart

1719 (Augsburg) - 1787 (Salzburg)
Leopold Mozart was a German composer, conductor, music teacher, and violinist.

📖 "Before beginning to play, the piece must be well looked at and considered. The character, tempo and kind of movement demanded by the piece must be sought out… Finally, in practising every care must be taken to find and render the affect which the composer wished to have brought out; and as sadness often alternates with joy, each must be carefully depicted according to its kind. In a word, all must be so played that the player himself be moved thereby."
Leopold Mozart Treatise on The Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing (1756)

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Keyboard / Piano Music by Leopold Mozart

Solo Keyboard

Sonata, F, S1.1 (Nuremberg, 1759), ed. in S; Sonata, B♭, S1.2 (Nuremberg, 1760), ed. in S; Sonata, C, S1.3, by 1759 (Nuremberg, 1760), ed. in S; Tempo di menuetto, 1 Jan 1761,

H-Bn*; Minuet and Trio, by 1756, and Trio, by 1762,

A-Sm (Nannerl Notenbuch, no.17 = Hochzeitsmenuette S3.36 no.9–10 and Nannerl Notenbuch, no.48 = arr. of trio of movt iii of Serenade, D), ed. in NMA, IX:27/i; other unattrib. minuets in Nannerl Notenbuch, by Leopold; Fugue and Andante,

CH-E, MS, c1801
Der Morgen und der Abend (for Salzburg Hornwerk), S1.4–10, ?1754 (Augsburg, 1759), ed. in Dankmäler der Musik in Salzburg, i (Munich, 1977)
[Polonoise], Arietto and Scherzo,

Pedagogical

Nannerl Notenbuch, 1759–c1763,

A-Sm, ed. in NMA, IX:27/i [incl. works by L. Mozart and others]; Notenbuch, seinem Sohn Wolfgang Amadeus … geschenkt, 1762, spurious (see Plath, A1971–2)
Arrs. and transcrs. of other composers’ works; sketches, drafts, frags.; figured bass exercises

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