Explore The Connection Between Enlightenment Ideas And Mozart’s Music

In the 18 th century,Europe has experienced a period of upheaval and change,carrying the ideas of freedom and progress of strong tidal current challenge the existing order,promote the development of a new concept,the idea that man has the potential to use rational and personal power to understand and improve themselves,and give full freedom of life in pursuit of self-fulfillment.Advocates of this view saw it as a kind of enlightenment,hence the name of this period of great prosperity.The essence of the Enlightenment ideology was the pursuit of rationality and freedom of thought.The awakened people believed that human beings were inherently good.If rationality was allowed to replace superstition and tradition in the shaping of social order,then society could become perfect.This view of The Times had a profound impact on the creative ideas of artists at that time and gave birth to a new artistic style--Classical Era.Classical music in the period of the style the biggest characteristic is the pursuit of nature and the nature,the structure of the emphasis on the proportion of symmetry,balance,clear contrast,these are undoubtedly is a perfect artistic display of rational spirit,but Mozart is through promoting simplicity,lucid and smooth,concise style of music this kind of reason and nature of the effect of the artistic value expresses the extreme.Starting from the special background of Mozart’s times,this paper tries to explore the connection between this great musician and the special background of Mozart’s times in a deeper way by combining the different music genres he created and share some insights and suggestions on Mozart’s performance.