Synopsis Born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician capable of playing multiple instruments who started playing in public at the age of 6. Over the years, Mozart aligned himself with a variety of European venues and patrons, composing hundreds of works that included sonatas, symphonies, masses, concertos and operas, marked by vivid emotion and sophisticated textures. Early Life Central Europe in the mid-18th century was going through a period of transition. The remnants of the Holy Roman Empire had divided into small semi-self-governing principalitie...

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... and complete deafness. When Beethoven was in Vienna he often lived with members of the nobility who also secured his income and provided him opportunities to perform his new works (Biography). "Beethoven is regarded as one of the greatest masters of musical construction, sometimes sketching the architecture of a movement before he had decided upon the subject matter. He was one ... ...

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... -a capital letter K, followed by a number-has remained a "helpful shorthand" in referring to individual works in Mozart's vast output. The Köchel Series can be seen as an abstract biography of Mozart, an index of the composer's development as an artist from life to death. For example, K. 1a is a short piece of harpsichord Mozart composed when he was 5 years old ... ...

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... , were removed during his autopsy and then disappeared. They were "sold, lost or destroyed, " Limb says, "so every theory on his hearing loss is really speculative.(Alsop) According to Beethoven's biography (Schlosser), Assistant pathologist at the Museum of Pathology in Vienna, Johann Wagner completed the autopsy on Beethoven on March 27, 1827. Although the original document has been lost, a copy was ... ...

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