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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.

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Mozart wrote more than 800 musical works. Many have the highest musical quality. His works include the operasThe Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte and The Magic Flute; the symphonies in E-flat major, G minor, and C major ("Jupiter"). He wrote concertos for piano, violin, and different wind instruments. He also wrote many chamber pieces, church music, minuets, dances, songs, and a Requiem. Along with Bach and Beethoven, Mozart is viewed as one of the greatest composers who ever lived.

Life

Family and early years

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ("Wolfi" or Wolferl") was born in Salzburg to Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart. Leopold was a violinist in the orchestra of the archbishop of Salzburg. He was the author of a best-selling introduction to playing the violin.

Young Mozart had great musical talent at a very early age. He was playing the harpsichord and the violin at the age of five. He was also writing little pieces of music.

Mozart's sister Maria Ann

Mozart's "Magic Flute" is one of the most famous and reverred operas in the world. But the composer, dubbed the "pop star of classical music," also produced works that are mainstays of popular culture, including "Little Night Music" — perhaps best-known today as a ringtone.

The musical prodigy too created profound music that plumbed the depths of the soul.

"Mozart is more than the chocolate ball from Salzburg and more than a cell phone ringtone," said Evelyn Meining, director of the Mozartfest Würzburg, the biggest Mozart festival in Germany. 

"He was a hard-working person who composed day and night," she added.

Meining wants to promote am image of Mozart that is far-removed from the clichés.

A classical child prodigy

Born in Salzburg in current-day Austria in 1756, Wolfang Amadeus Mozart composed over 600 works in the 35 years of his life, including 41 numbered symphonies and 21 operas.

He also wrote concertos, masses, instrumental works and songs.

"When you look at the extent of his huge output in his short life, you get an idea of how many hours and years he spent sitting alone and composing," said Meining.

During his childhood, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his equally talented sister Anna Maria "Nannerl" were presented at court as musical prodigies.

Their father took them all over Europe — in a bumpy horse-drawn carriage, which was a strain for the siblings.

Later, Mozart repeatedly defied the authorities and left his job with the Archbishop of Salzburg to set up his own business in Vienna.

By those days' standards, he earned a good living but spent more than he earned. Shortly after the premiere of the "Magic Flute," he fell seriously ill and died in December 1791 — aged just 35 and with an infinite number of compositions in his head that he was no longer able to complete.

'Capturing the soul in sound'

Composer (1756–1791)

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoires. Mozart is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with his music admired for its "melodic beauty, its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture".

Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. At age five, he was already competent on keyboard and violin, had begun to compose, and performed before European royalty. His father took him on a grand tour of Europe and then three trips to Italy. At 17, he was a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position. Mozart's search for employment led to positions in Paris, Mannheim, Munich, and again in Salzburg, during which he wrote his five violin concertos, Sinfonia Concertante, and Concerto for Flute and Harp, as well as sacred pieces and masses, the motet Exsultate Jubilate, and the opera Idomeneo, among other works.

While visiting Vienna in 1781, Mozart was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He stayed in Vienna, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During Mozart's early years in Vienna, he produced several notable works, such as the opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail, the Great Mass in C minor, the "Haydn" Quartets and a number of symphonies. Throughout his Vienna years, Mozart composed over a dozen piano concertos, many considered some of his greatest achievements. In th

Mozart occupies a unique place in the history of culture, as his output of over 600 works defined the course of classical music, and remade the face of opera. Mozart’s compositions are staples of our cultural landscape, and his is a name which still, centuries later, sells out concert halls around the world.

But how did the tear-away son of a middling family make it to the top? What impact did his commitment to his art have on his health? And what is the truth about his final days?

This is a Short History Of….Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

A Noiser production, written by Dan Smith. With thanks to John Suchet, Classic FM radio presenter and author of Mozart: The Man Revealed.

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