'In April 1805, the thirteen-year-old Wolfgang Mozart made his debut in Vienna in a concert in the Theater an der Wien.' Like his father, he started to compose at an early age.

He learned to play both the piano and violin. He received excellent musical instruction from Antonio Salieri and Johann Nepomuk Hummel, and studied composition with Johann Georg Albrechtsberger and Sigismund von Neukomm. Although he was baptized Franz Xaver Mozart, he was always called Wolfgang by his family. He knew Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann who both held him in high esteem.įranz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart was born in Vienna, four months and ten days before his father's death. He was a composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher of the late classical period whose musical style was of an early Romanticism, heavily influenced by his father's mature style. Josepha, Aloysia, and Sophie Weber (maternal aunts)įranz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (26 July 1791 – 29 July 1844), also known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jr., was the youngest child of six born to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his wife Constanze and the younger of his parents' two surviving children.

At his death in 1791 he was working on his magnificent Requiem. At first things went well, but in time his fortunes began to decline and his health began to suffer. It was there Mozart produced most of his enduring masterpieces, notably four sublime operas, beginning with The Marriage of Figaro, symphonies, piano concertos (which Mozart played himself with great brilliance), chamber music, and a remarkable series of works for his friend, the virtuoso clarinetist Anton Stadler. It wasn’t until 1781 that he was able to break free and set himself up as a freelance composer and pianist in the imperial capital Vienna. Born in 1756 in Salzburg, Mozart quickly began to spread his wings, but his ambitions were increasingly thwarted by his employer, the Archbishop of Salzburg. But perhaps the greatest miracle is that he kept on developing, reaching new, dazzling heights and plumbing new emotional depths until his tragically premature death at 35. Was Mozart really the boy genius of mythology? He was stunningly talented, dazzling audiences across Europe with his playing and precocious compositions before he turned 10.

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