Josef Mysliveček
Czech composer · Musicians · Lived 1737 to 1781 · aged 43
Josef Mysliveček was a Czech composer. He contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music.
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Posthumous portrait of Josef Mysliveček by Jan Vilímek based on a contemporary engraving
The house of Mysliveček's parents on Melantrichova Street in Prague, where the composer spent much of his childhood and early adulthood. A bust of the composer can be seen on the lower left above a commemorative plaque.
A portrait of Mozart, aged 14, in Verona, 1770, by Saverio dalla Rosa (1745-1821)
Bust on the Mysliveček house in Prague.About this person
Mysliveček provided his younger friend Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with significant compositional models in the genres of symphony, Italian serious opera, and violin concerto; both Wolfgang and his father Leopold Mozart considered him an intimate friend from the time of their first meetings in Bologna in 1770 until he betrayed their trust over the promise of an operatic commission for Wolfgang to be arranged with the management of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. His closeness to the Mozart family resulted in frequent references to him in the Mozart correspondence.
