Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27,1756 as the son of Anna-Maria and Leopold Mozart in Salzburg, Austria. Leopold and wife Anna-Maria had eight children, out of the eight Wolfgang and his sister were the only children to survive birth. At the age of five he began composing minuets and had learned how to play the clavier, the piano, the violin, and the organ very well at age six. Also at the age of six Mozart had written five short piano pieces that are often played and at age nine he composed a few symphonies. His father educated him in music and in what schools taught. He was a good sight-reader and improviser in music. He wrote sonatas for the harpsichord and the violin. At the age of twelve he wrote the ope

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Mozart had an overall unsuccessful career and died of a kidney decease in 1791. Although no one knows exactly where Mozart is actually buried, there is a memorial for him in Salzburg. During his short career he has put out more than six hundred works. The six hundred are made up of symphonies, divertimentos, sonatas, chamber music for a lot of instrumental combination, and concertos. He also wrote pieces for vocalists such as church music and operas. What has made him such a genius is that he can almost put together a whole piece of music before even writing it down on paper. Another thing that made his work so popular is that

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