Mongolia 1000 Tugrik Gold Coin 2006 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
250th anniversary of birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-2006
Obverse: Portrait of Austrian composer and pianist Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) above National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Mongolia building in Ulan Bator, Mozart's signature at right.
Lettering: 1736 - 2006 MONGOLIAN NATIONAL OPERA
The reverse displays the Mongolian Coat of Arms and the coin’s value, 1000 Tögrög.
Lettering: 1000 Tögrög 1/25 ounce 999.9 Gold
Value: 100 Tögrög
Composition: Gold
Fineness: 0.999
Weight: 1.24 grams
AGW: 0.0398 oz
Diameter: 13.92 mm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Coins
Austria 100 Schilling Coin 1991 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Piano
Mongolia 1000 Tugrik Gold Coin 2006 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mongolia 1000 Tugrik Gold Coin 2006 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty.
At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death. The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized. He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons.
He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence on subsequent Western art music is profound; Ludwig van Beethoven composed his own early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years".
National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Mongolia
The National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Mongolia (colloquially called Ulaanbaatar Opera House) opened on 15 May 1963 and made its opening ceremony on 18 May 1963 with Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.
The repertoire includes classical and national ballet (Swan Lake, The Nutcracker) and opera (Madama Butterfly, La bohème).
The beginnings of a contemporary professional theatre in Mongolia were laid down with the establishment of a National Central Theatre in 1931, which was an extension of the Folk Stadium which was inaugurated in 1927.