Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART(1756 - 1791) was an Austrian prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.

Composer

• Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood started to learn the piano when he was 3. 
• Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. 
• At 17, he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. 
• 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 Mozart's death.
• He composed The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro.