Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, full name Johann Chrysostomus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was an Austrian composer and virtuoso musician. Mozart is one of the greatest composers in music history on par with Beethoven and Haydn.

Wolfgang was born into the family of violinist and composer Leopold Mozart (1719-1787), at the age of five he had already begun composing and gave his first public performance. His older sister Maria Anna (1751-1829) was also a prodigy, and from 1763 Leopold and his children began traveling around Europe with performances.

Mozart had a phenomenal musical ear, memory and was a superb improviser. Unlike any other composer in music history, he was versatile and wrote in all musical genres of his time. During his short life, Mozart composed more than 800 works, many of which are recognized as the pinnacle of the symphonic, concert, chamber, opera and choral repertoire. The general public is familiar with the composer's three operas: The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute.

Society did not immediately appreciate the scale of Mozart's genius. It was only many years later that the vivid image of a prodigy, a refined salon composer who could miraculously think through an entire work in his head, gave way to the image of a serious, meticulous and brilliant creator of music.

Date and place of birt:27 january 1756, Salzburg, Austria
Date and place of death:5 december 1791, Vienna, Austria
Period of activity: XVIII century
Specialization:Composer, Musicologist
Art style:Classicism

Creators Classicism

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Paul Decker I (1677 - 1713)
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Friedrich Geselschap (1835 - 1898)
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Henry William Beechey (1753 - 1839)
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Josef Theodor Moroder-Lusenberger (1846 - 1939)
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Alfred de Dreux (1810 - 1860)
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John Edward Jones (1806 - 1862)
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Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy (1783 - 1873)
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Friedrich Wilhelm Völcker (1799 - 1870)
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Louis Skell (1869 - 1950)
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Franz Anton von Leitenstorf (1721 - 1795)
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Antonio Canova (1757 - 1822)
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