Leopold Mozart (1719-1787) - Sinfonia D-Dur ()

Composer: Leopold Mozart (1719-1787) Work: Sinfonia D-Dur () Performers: Münchener Kammerorchester; Hans StadImair (1929-2019, leitung) Drawing: Johann Hieronymus Löschenkohl (1753-1807) --- Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (Augsburg, 14 November 1719 - Salzburg, 28 May 1787) German composer and pedagogue. The son of a bookbinder, Mozart received his earliest education from the Jesuits at the St. Salvator Gymnasium and Lyceum. While at the latter, he distinguished himself as an actor and singer, although he also progressed as a violinist and organist. As a polymath with many varied interests in the sciences and philosophy, he enrolled at Salzburg University, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1738. Although he was expelled the following year for lack of attendance in the natural sciences, he attached himself to the court of Count Johann Baptist of Thurn-Valsassina und Taxis as a violinist and valet, publishing his first works, a set of six church trio sonatas,