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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg in Austria, the son of
Leopold, Kapellmeister to the Prince-Archbishop of
Salzburg. By the age of three he could play the piano, and he was
composing by the time he was five; minuets from this period
show remarkable understanding of form. Mozart's elder sister Maria Anna
(best known as Nannerl) was also a gifted keyboard
player, and in 1762 their father took
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ied at shortly after midnight on December 5th, 1791, aged
thirty-five years, eleven
months, and nine days.
Mozart's legacy is incestimalbe. A master of every form in which he
worked, he set standards of excellence that have inspired
generations of composers.
Some of his representative works
Symphonies Nos. 25, 29, 38, 39, 40 41 Jupiter
Piano Concertos Nos. 19, 20 & 27
sinfonia concertante for violin and viola
String Quartets: the Hunt, the Dissonance
String Quintet No.4 in G minor, K516
Le Nozze di Figaro
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