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Mozart
THE MAN AND THE LEGEND
Overview
 Birthplace and upbringing
 How he came to music and his
development
 The composing wonders of his life
 His death
Early years
 born in Salzburg Austria in the year January 27, 1756
 Father was a musician
 Mozart actually began playing at age 3
 Began composing at age 6
 Father saw potential and made Wolfgang his life’s
work
His development as a musician
 Mozart began by playing duets with his sister
 Father took a great interest in their learning
 Eventually the Mozarts began to tour headlining as a
boy prodigy
 Mozarts father pushed him to constantly make more
money through performances
 Mozarts skills only grew as he became a young man
The Personal life of Wolfgang Mozart
 As mozart grew up his father initially pushed him
away from marriage and courting
 As the years passed mozart was married and lived a
frivolous lifestyle
 Mozart and his spouse came on harder times which
caused him to fall into a depression.
The wonders of mozarts life in composing
 Mozarts composed his first symphony at age 6
 Mozart continued to compose symphonies as he
toured with his father
 Mozart usually composed per commission, or as a
gift for a close friend or loved one.
 Every genre he touched he mastered easily and
perfected, He was a master
The death and legend of Wolfgang Mozart
 The last years of mozarts life were mostly
overshadowed by his deep depression
 Before his death to fatal illness mozart did make a
recovery and composed some of his finest work
 The sheer number and diversity of compositions in
his short lifetime eclipses any other composer