Salzburg. By the age of three he could play the piano, and he was composing by the time he was five; minuets from this period

show remarkable understanding of form. Mozart's elder sister Maria Anna (best known as Nannerl) was also a gifted keyboard

player, and in 1762 their father took the two prodigies on a short performing tour, of the courts at Vienna and Munich.

Encouraged by their reception, they embarked the next year on a longer tour, including two weeks at Versailles, where the

children enchanted Louis XV. In 1764 they arrived in London. Here Mozart wrote his first three symphonies, under the

influence of Johann Christian Bach, youngest son of Johann Sebastian, who lived in the city. After their return to Salzburg there

followed three trips to Italy between 1769 and 1773. In Rome Mozart heard a performance of Allegri's Misere; the score of

this work was closely guarded, but Mozart managed to transcribe the music almost perfectly from memory. On Mozart's first

visit to Milan, his opera Mitridate, re di Ponto was successfully produced, followed on a subsequent

wind instruments, K361. On his return from Munich, however, the hostility brewing between him and the archbishop came to a

contrasts strikingly with the affirmatory Symphony No.41 Jupiter. Neither helped alleviate his financial plight, however, which

truth is that the physicians who attended him were never quite sure what Mozart died of. He

parents were away on a visit to Salzburg. Their

writing music. Wherever he appeared, people gaped in awe at

Constanze Mozart's life was far from easy. From

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