Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg in 1756, the son of court musician Leopold Mozart. By six he was performing at the harpsichord for the Empress Maria Theresa in Vienna and the King of England in London. By twelve he had written his first opera. Settled in Vienna from 1781, he produced — in roughly a decade of mature work — over 600 compositions: the operas Le Nozze di Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Die Zauberflöte (1791); twenty-seven piano concertos; forty-one symphonies; chamber music in every genre then known. He died in December 1791 at thirty-five, working on a Requiem commissioned anonymously for which he had come to believe he was composing his own funeral mass. Buried in a common grave in St. Marx Cemetery, he left no fortune and no certain grave site — and the most influential body of music ever produced in a single short life.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1,756 CE – 1,791 CE
The Austrian prodigy who composed for emperors at six and reshaped Western music in thirty-five years.
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