Michael Jackson & Mozart
The Many Parallels of the King of Pop & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1.) Mozart showed prodigious abilities in music at a very early age. The same can be said with Michael Jackson's vocal and musical abilities.
2.) At the age of five Mozart began performing before European royalty and all over Europe. Michael Jackson made his debut at a talent show in Gary, Indiana and later performed throughout the Midwest and in nearby Chicago night clubs.
3.) Leopold Mozart, his father, became his teacher, mentor, and manager. Joe Jackson became his son's manager, coach, and advisor.
4.) Mozart and his sister, Maria Anna or Nannerl, performed together as child prodigies. MJ and Janet performed together as children on television variety shows with the Jackson 5.
5.) At seventeen Mozart was hired as a court musician to the Prince Archbishop Colloredo in Salzburg, Austria. He composed and performed many of his symphonies, sonatas, serenades, and other musical pieces to a huge following in Salzburg. Michael Jackson debuted as an entertainer at age 10 with the Jackson 5, later to a recording contract with Motown Records in Detroit, and by having a huge legion of fans, selling out concerts, and having hit songs on the pop charts.
6.) Mozart broke free of his restricting ties in Salzburg to the Prince Archbishop and to his father. He then embarked on being a freelance performer and composer in Vienna, Austria. In 1971 Michael Jackson embarked on a solo career while still a member of the Jackson 5. In 1979 he joined forces with record producer, Quincy Jones, for his first album "Off the Wall".
7.) During Mozart's Vienna years he composed his world famous opera in 1786, "The Marriage of Figaro", which is still performed in opera houses throughout the world. Michael Jackson in 1982 gave the world "Thriller", the best-selling album of all time.
8.) Mozart was a small man, very thin, and pale. MJ was described by many journalists, after his death, who had seen him during the trials and his last rehearsal as a small man, very thin, and pale due to his skin condition, which grew worse in later years.
9.) Mozart's facial complexion was pitted due to getting smallpox as a child. MJ suffered from severe acne during his teen years.
10.) His wife Constanze described Mozart's voice in a letter as rather soft in speaking and delicate in singing. However, when it was necessary to exert his singing voice it was powerful and energetic. Michael Jackson was well-known for his very soft-spoken speaking voice, yet his singing voice was powerful and energetic.
11.) Mozart and Michael Jackson had extremely conflicting feelings about their fathers due to the controlling and manipulative ways early in their careers as well as in childhood.
12.) In the film "Amadeus" Mozart came across as childish, immature, and crude. MJ was a child-like man in later years, highly eccentric, and displayed illicit behavior with his infamous crotch-grabbing moves after the release of his "Bad" album.
13.) In the latter part of their lives each were in deep financial debt.
14.) Mozart was in the midst of composing his famous work, the "Requiem". Michael Jackson was in the process of preparing for his "This is It" 50-city tour before their deaths.
15.) Mozart greatly influenced Beethoven and Tchaikovsky as well as many other classical music composers. MJ greatly influenced Usher and Justin Timberlake, only to name a few, in the world of Pop, R&B, and Hip Hop music.
16.) Mozart was an influential composer of the Classical era. Michael Jackson was an influential all-around entertainer in the modern Popular music era.
Joseph Haydn, one of the classical musical composers influenced by Mozart, wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years". I heard a similar quote said about Michael Jackson on a tribute show for him. Based on my interest in Eastern philosophy I cannot help but see too many strong similarities between two people and think it is mere coincidence. Posterity may not have seen such a talent again in 100 years, but it certainly saw it again shortly after 200 years reincarnated. Could it be Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart came back as Michael Jackson?
SOURCES:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Mozart
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Post a CommentVery interesting article. Being a huge MJ and Mozart fan this was a very fun read. I especially liked how you compared Figaro to Thriller, that is almost cheeky yet significant. ;)
Your No. 14, "Mozart was in the midst of composing his famous work, the "Requiem". Michael Jackson was in the process of preparing for his "This is It" 50-city tour before their deaths." really hit home. I was just at the Mozarthaus in Vienna a few months ago and they had a section featuring his 'Requeim'. It was hard to stay composed when immersed in the haunting composition while reading about the final days that lead to his unfortunate demise. I was, 2 months prior to being in Vienna at the premier of MJ's "THIS IS IT", where I bawled my heart out for the legacy that the King of Pop left behind.
the genius of mozart- this is interesting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApPVyPn9IgI
Annie
Annmarie, I have often wondered the very same thing myself. It's also interesting to note the movie "Amadeus" came out in the mid 80's during the immense height of MJ's phenomenal popularity
Also...
I'm wondering if Michael knew this while he was alive or if he just "thought" it was a connection because of the similarities?!
I agree. I just stumbled upon it yesterday and wanted to see if anyone else noticed it too. I've always deeply loved both of them and noticed the connection of empathy. But, what exactly does reincarnation mean ya know? Is it just the spirit of the person/like the same personality characteristics? Same lessons etc? There's a deep connection here...
Even their love lives and the way they died and how they both became more popular and a resurgence of their music after they died, the way the dad travelled with both of them (the boys) and left the women at home etc. I was searching for stuff on this all day yesterday and came upon the same website michaelteachings.com
MJ was the Mozart of the 20th century, period!
3- of our heartbeats, the migration of birds, the ebb and flow of ocean tides, the cycles of growth, evolution and dissolution. It's music, it's rhythm. And my goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance."
Michael Jackson and Mozart are one and the same. And I just found confirmation here:
http://www.michaelteachings.com/celebrities.html
2- and then rushes to write it all down. Einstein once said that while Beethoven created his music, Mozart's "was so pure that it seemed to have been ever-present in the universe, waiting to be discovered by the master." (Incidentally, in MJ's short film, Ghosts, he plays "The Maestro", and there is a short piece of lovely classical music which I think he wrote.)
Einstein also described Mozart's music as the music of the spheres, with the same harmonic proportions and symmetry. Then I read about Michael talking about the same thing (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n1_v48/ai_12824421/), and it hit me like a thunderbolt. He said, in his song, "'Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.' This is a very literal statement, because the same new miracle intervals and biological rhythms that sound out the architecture of my DNA also govern the movement of the stars. The same music governs the rhythm of the seasons, the pulse of o
I would like to add a few more points:
Mozart started composing music at a very young age, as did Michael. "His [Michael's] mother, who explains how the children used to sing all day and night, especially when it would be snowing outside, recounts how Michael would wake up in the middle of the night and make music and go 'woohoo for no rhyme or reason.'" Plus he would listen to classical music all day long, even as young as 5.
Michael also describes himself as a channel through which songs come, and that the songs come to him complete - the melody, words, rhythm, chords, everything, and he felt embarrassed to be given credit for it. He said the music was already composed - out there - and him 'writing' songs was like sitting under a tree with leaves (songs) falling all around him and he just reaches out and catches one. Then he writes down what he hears. Mozart writes like that too - he said that music 'falls upon him' in complete pieces, chords and everything. He just hears it a