Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. At age five he was already competent on keyboard and violin, he had begun to compose, and he performed before European royalty. His father took him on a grand tour of Europe and then three trips to Italy. At 17, he was a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position. Mozart's search for employment led to positions in Paris, Mannheim, Munich, and again in Salzburg, during which he wrote his five violin concertos, Sinfonia Concertante, and Concerto for Flute and Harp, as well as sacred pieces and masses, the motet ''Exsultate Jubilate'', and the opera ''Idomeneo,'' among other works.
While visiting Vienna in 1781, Mozart was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He stayed in Vienna, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During Mozart’s early years in Vienna, he produced several notable works, such as the opera ''Die Entführung aus dem Serail'', the ''Great Mass in C Minor'', the "Haydn" Quartets and a number of symphonies. Throughout his Vienna years, Mozart composed over a dozen piano concertos, many considered some of his greatest achievements. In the final years of his life, Mozart wrote many of his best-known works, including his last three symphonies, culminating in the ''Jupiter'' Symphony, the serenade ''Eine kleine Nachtmusik'', his Clarinet Concerto, the four operas ''Le nozze di Figaro'', ''Don Giovanni'', ''Così fan tutte'' and ''The Magic Flute'' and his Requiem. The Requiem was largely unfinished at the time of his death at age 35, the circumstances of which are uncertain and much mythologised. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published 1994
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Published 1989
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Published 1978
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Published 1997
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Published 1997
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Published 2001
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Published 1996
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Published 2001
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Published 1990
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Published 1995
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Published 1990
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Published 1998
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Published 1989
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Published 1992
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Published 1995
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Published 1981
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Published 1990
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218by Withers, Karen, Wells, Ellen, Hall, Rebecca, Dingle, Paul, Tucker, Scott, Payne, Mark, Bonnell, Bruce, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, B�hm, Theobald, 1794-1881, Burton, Eldin, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Faur�, Gabriel, 1845-1924, Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828, Fasch, Johann Friedrich, 1688-1758, Hummel, Johann Nepomuk, 1778-1837, Tomasi, Henri, 1901-1971, Clarke, H.L., Gli�re, Reinhold Moritsevich, 1875-1956, Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869, Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848, Strauss, Franz, 1822-1905Get access
Published 1990
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Published 1994
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Published 1994
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