The Quartet of the Municipal Conservatory of Patras with Ivona Glinka (flute), Yannis Mavridis (violin), Robert Smagulov (viola) and Nikolai Komissarov (cello), performs works by Mozart.

The concert entitled VIVA MOZART, will be given in the hall of the Municipal Conservatory of Patras (10 Aratou Street) at 8.00 in the evening of Monday 12 May and is part of the “The Municipal Conservatory presents…”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the greatest composers of all time. His works are part of the repertoire of any self-respecting orchestra.

His full name is Johannes Christostomus Wolfgangus Teofilus Amadeus Mozart and he was born on the 8th morning of January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, then part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and now part of Austria. He was the son of the composer Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria Perthl.

Mozart lived only 35 years, but he composed some 600 works (symphonies, chamber music, concertos, operas and choral works), most of which are masterpieces. At the age of three he was playing the piano, at five he was composing and at six he gave his first concerto

Mozart, although a composer, is a myth, a popular idol. He had the gift of writing simple and memorable melodies, in their complexity.

Between serious and funny, it is said that if it were possible for Mozart to claim the rights to use his music and his name, he could buy all of Austria. After all, his hometown of Salzburg lives and grows to this day thanks to Mozart. And yet, the composer of “Little Night Music”, “Don Giovanni”, “The Magic Flute” and other masterpieces struggled to make ends meet in his short life.

He died at one in the morning of December 5, 1791, writing the “Requiem” of his life and career.