Javid Samadov marking the twentieth anniversary of Azerbaijan's Independence in Baku. In May 2012, he appeared in the leading role of Papageno in the opera "The Magic Flute" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Osimo, Italy, and June 2012, in the leading role of Leporello in the opera "Don Giovanni" by Mozart in Tel Aviv, Israel. In September–October 2012 he appeared in the "Tribute to Muslim Magomayev" series of concerts in Astana, Kazakhstan, held at the Kazakhstan Central Concert Hall, the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk (near Moscow) and at the Heydar Aliyev Palace in Baku. As a soloist in the International Opera
Beethoven and Mozart paid homage to Mozart by making a quotation from "Don Giovanni" (the opening notes of Leporello's aria ‘Notte e giorno faticar’) the basis of the 22nd of the Diabelli Variations. Beethoven and Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had a powerful influence on the work of Ludwig van Beethoven. They are said to have met in Vienna in 1787, and Beethoven is said to have had a few lessons from Mozart. However, this is uncertain, as there is only one account of a meeting, and it is not contemporary. Beethoven knew much of Mozart's work. Some of his themes recall Mozart's, and