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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart grew up in Salzburg under the regulation of his strict father Leopold who also was a famous composer of his time. His abilities in music were obvious even when Mozart was still young so that in 1762 at the age of six, his father took him with his elder sister on a concert tour to Munich and Vienna and a second one from 1763-66 through the south of Germany, Paris and London. Mozart was celebrated as a wonder child everywhere because of his excellent piano playing and his improvisations.

In 1769 he became the concertmaster of the Archbishop and was knighted by the Pope in Rome. Working in Salzburg he nevertheless travelled around Europe to meet other composers and orchestras. But in 1781 after a dispute with the Archbishop he left Salzburg and went to Vienna where he married Constanze Weber from Mannheim. In Vienna he also started his friendship with Joseph Haydn and a time of many work pieces. In the last year of his life, for example, he wrote one of his masterpieces, "Die Zauberflöte". Although some of his operas were successful he could not make money from this and died in poverty at the age of 35, having even on his last day worked on a "Requiem". He was buried in a communal grave which could not be precisely identified years later.

[on his prolific compositions] I write as a sow piddles.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our
existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations
with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only
no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling!
And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of
learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true
happiness.

People are wrong who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you,
nobody has devoted so much time and thought to composition as I.

Sweetheart, if I wrote you all the things I&#39;m doing with your picture, you&#39;d laugh.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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