Of all the great composers throughout the years, possibly the most famous ever would be Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Few composers ever have led such a remarkable life of left such a remarkable lasting legacy of music in such a short span of life.

Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He was the second survivor of six born to an accomplished musician named Leopold (The Symphony pg.1). Mozart was a child prodigy when he began playing the keyboard at just three years old. He began to compose music at four and wrote his first symphony at eight years of age (Mozart). Mozart spent most of his life touring Europe and performing in front of aristocrats until he moved to Vienna in 17

82 and wed Constaze Weber (The Symphony pg.2). Although he would only live for nine more years spending the last two with an ill wife and in poverty some of his greatest works would come through the symphonies he composed during this time. He had a glorious childhood career that would eventually as he got older fizzle, as the public would grow tired of him. From there on he would live in poverty until he died in Vienna. Wolfgang would write nearly a thousand works in his lifetime, with the significant ones to include over fifty symphonies, twenty seven piano concertos, and seven of the greatest operas of all time (Mozart). Some say that he was not an original composer because he never actually did invent a form or style, and his work leane

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