Leopold Mozart (1719-1787) - Cantata ’Surgite, mortui’ (1755)

★ Follow music ► Composer: Leopold Mozart (1719-1787) Work: Cantata ’Surgite, mortui’ (1755) Performers: Heinrich Weber (tenor); Tölzer Knabenchor und seine Solisten; Convivium Musicum München; Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden (leitung) Painting: Georg Balthasar Probst (1732-1801) - Gezicht op het Ulrichsplatz te Augsburg Further info: Listen free: No available --- 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. A