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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Born in Salzburg, Austria on Jan. 27, 1756
• full name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus
Gottlieb Mozart
he 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
Chrysostom's.
• Parents: Leopold Mozart - composer and
violinist, concertmaster at the archiepiscopal
court
• Anna Maria Pertl, daughter of Wolfgang Nikolaus
Pertl, an official from Sankt Gilgen. Sibling: Maria
Anna Mozart
• Mozart composed over 600 works including:
21 stage and opera works, 15 Masses, over 50
symphonies, 25 piano concertos, 12 violin
concertos, 27 concert arias, 17 piano sonatas, 26
string quartets, and many other pieces.
• His style was very unique, unlike many of the
musical styles of his time. People did not
appreciate his radical music because they did not
understand Mozart's complex and extraordinary
music.
• In his later years, Mozart incorporates many
musical elements and style from different
countries into his works.
• His late works include three of his most famous
operas, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni,
Cosi fan tutte, written in collaboration with
Lorenza da Ponte and his last three church pieces,
Mass in C Minor, Ave Verum Corpus, and
Requiem. Both the Mass in C Minor and Requiem
remain unfinished.
• He started when he was four by making his
own composition and studying violin. He said
that all his activities be accompanied by
music. When her was six he went on a tour all
through Europe by stagecoach. He played for
royalty, well-known people and in bars. At age
seven he proposed marriage to Marie
Antoinette. When Mozart was eight he
composed symphonies. At age eleven he
wrote his first opera.
Websites
• http://www.its.caltech.edu/~tan/Mozartreq/
main.html