Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born exactly 250 years ago.
That's what Google is celebrating today, for the first time!
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Theophilus Mozart) (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) is among the most significant and enduringly popular composers of European classical music. His enormous output includes works that are widely acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. Many of his works are part of the standard concert repertory and are widely recognized as masterpieces of the classical style.
Google came up with this beautiful Google Doodle:
The yellow 'o' of Google's got the wig of Mozart. The 'g' represents the G clef (A clef is a symbol used in musical notation that assigns notes to lines and spaces on the musical staff).
Some details about the G clef:
The G clef is composed of a spiral in the approximate form of a capital letter G, overlaid on a stretched letter S. It assigns the note G to a line on the staff, determined by the curl of the "G" symbol. It is normally placed on the staff with the spiral originating from the second line; this usage of the G clef is so common that the name treble clef is often used as a synonym, but the G clef can be placed on other lines: in the baroque period, for example, the G clef was sometimes placed on the first line of the staff for music with a high range, known today as the French clef.
Unfortunately, I'm not into notes, so I want be able to tell you them, though, the notes on the Google doodle probably represents one of Mozart's work.
