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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756. He was born in Salzburg, Austria. He died on December 5, 1791 in Vienna, Austria. He was only 35 years old when he died. He started playing the violin at age 6, and played the piano later on. Him and his sister Maria Anna were the only 2 children to survive. His wife was Constanze Mozart. They had 6 kids, but only 2 survived. The ones that survived were Franz Xaver Wolfgang and Karl Thomas. The other 4 died in at least a month to a year’s time

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s overture to The Marriage of Figaro brings together all the components and styles of the classical period. With it being an overture, it sets the mood and allows people to get ready for the opera they are about to watch. Mozart was one of the greatest composers to ever resonate from the classical period and his music is still studied and played worldwide today. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg. (Kem) Recognized for his works at an extremely young age

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a brilliant composer from the classical era. He lived a short life; however, he was able to compose many great pieces of music before he passed away. One of his famous pieces is his Eine Kleine Nachtmusik piece that he wrote in 1787. The piece can be observed as good from a Christian perspective. Art is meant to be felt and not just heard or seen. Mozart was born in Austria in 1756 to a musically inclined family. He put together his first concerto at the age of

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    Chrisostomus Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart was born January 27, 1756 in his family’s third-floor apartment at 9 Getreidegasse, to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl Mozart in the city of Salzburg, which is now Austria. At the time, Salzburg was part of the Holy Roman Empire. Mozart was baptized the day after his birth, January 28, 1756 at St. Rupert 's Cathedral. Mozart had six siblings and the only sibling who survived after birth was his older sister, Maria Anna, who had the nickname Nannerl. Wolfgang was his

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    Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart better known as, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was born in Salzburg, Austria to Leopold and Anne Marie Mozart. Leopold Mozart (1719-1787) was a violinist, composer and the Vice-Kapellmeister to the court of the Archbishop of Salzburg. His elder sister Marie Anne also nicknamed “Nannerl”, and are the only two to survive out of seven children. He and his sister were both child prodigies in music. At the age of three, Mozart would watch and mimic his elder

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Prominent Musical Genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an Austrian composer of the classical period. He was born in 1756. In 1782, he married Constanze Weber and had six children—four of which passed away when they were infants (Grout, 540). One of their two other sons that lived followed his legacy of becoming a composer (Grout, 540). Mozart’s father was both a composer and a violinist, who began training him and his sister Nannerl musically at a very young age and took

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart once said, "Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music." If you have ever heard of his music, you would understand how much truth is in that quote. Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 and he was a composer of the Classical era. He was born in Salzburg and ever since he was a child has always showed his interest in the category of music. He was the son of Leopold and Anna

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    Fur Elise, Moonlight Sonata, Emperor Concerto, Pathetique and Violin Concerto all share a common trait. If you said Ludwig van Beethoven, you would be correct. One of the greatest composer ever, only to be rivaled by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He happened to be deaf when he created many of his famous works. Today, I am going to tell you about his childhood, early life, then to his later stages in life where he was deaf. But it was when he became deaf, he produced his greatest works of music. Ludwig

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1757 - 1791, was a prolific writer of concertos, composing 27 piano concertos. Throughout his writing he developed the use of the cadenza, highlighting the performer’s talent with a virtuosic passage. Not all Mozart’s cadenzas have survived therefore future composers have attempted to recreate these passages, often reflecting the period in which they were written. Cadenza comes from the Latin ‘Cadere’, ‘to fall’ and broadly means a flourish at the end of a single melodic

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giuseppe Verdi both wrote exquisite Requiems. Since Mozart lived in the Classical era, and Verdi lived in the Romantic era, their compositions were written almost one hundred years apart. Though there are similarities in their pieces they differ in many ways. In Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756. Wolfgang was the only son of Leopold and Maria Pertl Mozart to survive. Wolfgang began learning about music when he was three years old

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