... and pieces of music that your guarunteed to know at least one by heart. Born Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, most people called him Mozart or Wolfgang. Mozart, baptized Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was born in Salzburg, Austria, on January 27, 1756 to Leopold, Kapellmeister to the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, and Anna Maria Mozart. Leopold and Anna, had 7 children, but he and his sister Maria Anna, or ... "Nannerl", survived. Leopold began teaching his children music almost instantly, and in 1760, Wolfgang had already learned 8 minuets in his sisters music book, at the...

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... at six, was playing before the Bavarian elector and the Austrian empress. His father, Leopold Mozart, believed that it would be profitable to exhibit his children's musical talent. Aside from his musical genius, Wolfgang's sister, Maria Anna, was an extremely gifted keyboard player. In 1753, the Mozart family began their tour through Paris and London. Audiences were astonished by the skills of these ... 1766, they set off again to Vienna nine years later in hopes of having an opera by Mozart performed. After spending a year in Salzburg, between 1770 and 1773 the family made three visits...

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756. Even before he was four, he had amazing powers of musical memory and ear-sophistication. Mozart's father, Leopold, felt that he was so great he decided to sign Wolfgang up for harpsichord lessons. At five years old, he was already composing his own music. And at age six, wolfgang was a keyboard vituoso, so great that Leopold took Wolfgang and Maria Anna, his daughter on a tour of Munich and Vienna. By Mozart's early teen years, he had mastered the piano, harpsichord, and violin. So, he wrote keyboard pieces, oratorios, symphonies, ...

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... , and pieces of music that your guarunteed to know at least one by heart. Born Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, most people called him Mozart or Wolfgang. Mozart, baptized Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was born in Salzburg, Austria, on January 27, 1756 to Leopold, Kapellmeister to the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, and Anna Maria Mozart. Leopold and Anna, had 7 children, but he and his sister Maria Anna, or ... "Nannerl", survived. Leopold began teaching his children music almost instantly, and in 1760, Wolfgang had already learned 8 minuets in his sisters music book, at th...

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