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Mozart: child prodigy, melodic genius, Romantic forerunner... and our greatest composer?
Read on for our brief guide to the life and work of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the most gifted composers of his or any other era.
Who was Mozart?
Mozart was a great composer: one of the very greatest composers, in fact. And, before that, he was a child prodigy. From the age of seven, Mozart spent much of his childhood on tour, paraded by his father before potential patrons, academics and professional musicians.
When was Mozart born?
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, to give him his full and rather impressive name, was born on 27 January 1756, in the Austrian city of Salzburg.
Where did Mozart grow up?
Mozart grew up in Salzburg, where his father Leopold worked as a composer, violinist and theorist.
The young prodigy
It became apparent early on that the young Wolfgang was that rare thing: a musical prodigy. His father, Leopold Mozart, referred to him as 'the miracle that God allowed to be born in Salzburg.'
This talent first surfaced on
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791; pronounced MOHT-sart) was a composer, instrumentalist, and music teacher. His full baptised name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. He was born in Salzburg (then a free archbishopric city within the Holy Roman Empire, now Austria). He was the youngest child of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart. From a very early age, the young Mozart showed great musical talent. He toured Europe with his parents and older sister "Nannerl" for several years. In these tours, he performed for royalty and the aristocratic elite.
As a young man, Mozart worked in Paris, Mannheim and Munich. He returned to Salzburg. In Salzburg, he worked for the court of the Archbishop of Salzburg. He was restless, aware of his genius, and thought Salzburg too small for his talent. He moved to Vienna where he had some success. In Vienna, he married Constanze Weber. They had two sons. He died in Vienna after a brief but unknown illness.
Mozart wrote more than 800 musical works. Many have the highest musical q
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria. His father, Leopold Mozart, a noted composer, instructor, and the author of famous writings on violin playing, was then in the service of the archbishop of Salzburg. Leopold and Anna Maria, his wife, stressed the importance of music to their children. Together with his sister, Nannerl, Wolfgang received such intensive musical training that by the age of six he was a budding composer and an accomplished keyboard performer. In 1762 Leopold presented his son as performer at the imperial court in Vienna, Austria, and from 1763 to 1766 he escorted both children on a continuous musical tour across Europe, which included long stays in Paris, France, and London, England, as well as visits to many other cities, with appearances before the French and English royal families.
Mozart was the most celebrated child prodigy (an unusually gifted child) of this time as a keyboard performer. He also made a great impression as a composer and improviser (one who arranges or creates). In London he won the admiration of mus
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