... 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 on January 27, 1756 to Leopold and Maria Anna of Salzburg. They had seven children, but only Wolfgang and his older sister Nannerl survived. Leopold Mozart was a professional musician and composer who began teaching his children the fundamentals of music at an early age. Wolfgang began his musical journey ... as George III in April and May of 1764. The European tour did not just expose the world to the talents of Wolfgang Mozart; it also exposed Mozart to the music of Europe. The tour provided many opportunities for him to be exposed to music styles and music...

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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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... was baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. Mozart is named after his grandfather on his mother's side and after the Saint on his date of birth, Johannes Chrysostomus. Parents: Leopold Mozart - composer and violinist, concertmaster at the archiepiscopal court, and in 1763, vice-kapellmeister at Salzburg court; and Anna Maria Pertl, daughter of Wolfgang Nikolaus Pertl, an official from Sankt Gilgen. ... Sibling: Maria Anna (Nannerl) Mozart Age 3: started to play the keyboard. Age 5: started composing minuets 1763-1766 toured Europe with his father and sister playe...

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