Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a Classical composer and musician. He completed more than 800 works in his life—including outstanding examples of most of the genres of his time: symphonies, concertos, cha
Detail from Portrait of the Mozart Family, c. 1781
Mozart's birthplace at Getreidegasse 9, Salzburg
Mozart family on tour: Leopold, Wolfgang, Nannerl; watercolour by Carmontelle, c. 1763
Mozart aged 14 in January 1770 (School of Verona, attributed to Giambettino Cignaroli)
Leopold Mozart
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Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was a German composer, violinist, and music theorist. He is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
…the greatest composers in the history of Western music. Born in Salzburg, Mozart quickly emerged as a child prodigy under the training of his father Leopold, a skilled pedagogue. At the age of five he was already competent on keyboard and violin, had begun to compose, and had performed before European…
c. 1765 portrait
Mozart family
Anna Maria Pertl Mozart, wife of Leopold
Maria Anna (Nannerl) Mozart as a child (1763), said to be by Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni