Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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in Salzburg, Austria

January 27, 1756

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December 05, 1791

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart full name Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over six hundred works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.

Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. Visiting Vienna in 1781 he was dismissed from his Salzburg position an...more

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	Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Spaethling (editor/translator) 4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hans Mersmann 4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1928 — 20 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote) in Full Score 4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1971 — 33 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Opera and Choral Scores 3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1974 — 22 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mozart: A Life in Letters by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Cliff Eisen (Editor), Stewart Spencer (Translation) 4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze Di Figaro): Vocal Score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Katherine Martin (Translator) 3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1979 — 21 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Requiem in Full Score 4.72 of 5 stars 4.72 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1985 — 11 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complete Sonatas and Fantasies for Solo Piano 4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Così fan tutte, K. 588: Vocal Score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Katherine Martin (Translator) 4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1983 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Letters of Mozart and his Family by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Emily Anderson (Translator) 4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.”
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“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
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“I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”
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