The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) was an Austrian composer, widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of classical music. Son of Leopold Mozart, one of Europe’s leading musical pedagogues, whose influential textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule was published the same year as Mozart’s birth. From an early age, the young Mozart showed all the signs of a prodigious musical talent. By the age of five, he could read and write music, and he would entertain people with his talents on the keyboard.
During his life, Mozart composed over 600 works, completed several journeys throughout Europe, and played for some of the most distinguished guests. In the last year of his life, he began one of his greatest (but unfinished) works – The Requiem. Reasons for his death are not clear. The most likely is a sudden illness – possibly the plague or a combination of rheumatoid arthritis and pneumonia.
There is growing evidence for the efficacy of Mozart’s music, at reducing ictal and interictal epileptiform activity, specifically his Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K448). It seems to work by reducing so-called IEDs — abnormal brainwaves that occur in between seizures in epileptic patients. According to British Epilepsy Organization, there are only couple other music pieces that have been found to have similar K448 effect. #science #funfact