Mozart

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er died. No longer able to pass for a prodigy, the trip professionally was a success. Back in Salzburg Mozart worked for two years as a church organist for the new archbishop. Mozart produced some of his earliest masterpieces there. The famous Sinfonia concertante for violin, violo and orchestra was written in 1780, and the following year Mozart's first great stage work, the opera Idomeneo, was produced in Munich, where Mozart also wrote his Serenade for 13 wind instruments, K361. On his return from Munich, however, the hostility between him and the archbishop came to a head, and Mozart resigned. Delivering his resignation he was verbally abused and eventually, physically ejected from the archbishop's residence. His efforts did meet with some success. He took up residence in Vienna and in 1782 his opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The abdication from the Seraglio) was produced in the city and greatly received. The same year in Vienna's St Stephen's Cathedral Mozart married Constanze Weber. Soon afterwards he initiated a series of subscription concer...