- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era
Born: | 27 January 1756 Comment | When did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart die? / Died | 05 December 1791 | How many years did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart live? / Lived | 35 years | Zodiac sign: | Aquarius |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart facts
- Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood
- Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty
- At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position
- While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position
- He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security
- During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death
- The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized
- He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons
- He composed more than 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music
- He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence is profound on subsequent Western art music
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