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Early life and works Arguably the most creative musical genius of all time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart holds an unassailable position in the repertoires of concert musicians throughout the world. A prodigy who could play at age three and was beginning to compose by age five, Mozart performed in all the major courts of Europe before he was ten years old. As an adult, Mozart wrote and performed works in every major genre of classical music—concertos, symphonies, operas, string quartets, and sonatas. Mozart the man continues to be a subject of fascination because he has been sented in popular media as the ''unappreciated genius' of his time,a perception that is not quite true.

If you listened to Mozart's music 8 hours a day, every day, it would still take you about 1487.5 days to hear it all ... that's more than 4 YEARS! Mozart's full birth name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart. He was baptized Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart.He never used the first two names (Johannes Chrysostomus).Later, he changed his middle name to the Italian //Amadeo// .Still later, he settled on the French //Amadé//, which was his favorite.(He did not use the Latin //Amadeus// that he is known by today.) One of Wolfgang's nicknames was "Wolfie = = **Article abstract:** Along with Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van en, Mozart represents the fullest achievement of the Viennese classical style. Prolific and precocious, Mozart worked in a wide range of musical forms, from court dances and chamber music to symphonies and operas, producing some of the most enduring and masterful compositions in each.

Top 5 facts about Mo﻿zart!! = =
 * 1) Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. His father, Leopold, was a musician and minor composer in the court of the Archbishop of Salzburg.
 * 2) Mozart wrote his first opera, //Mitridate Re di Ponto//, in 1770 when he was only 14 years old. He had actually written a few earlier operas, but they were performed only in the Archbishop’s court in Salzburg. Over his career, Mozart wrote 17 operas. The most famous include //The Marriage of Figaro//, //The Magic Flute//, and //Don Giovanni//.
 * 3) Mozart’s more than 600 works include 41 symphonies, of which //Eine Kleine Nachtmusic// is probably the most well-known.
 * 4) Mozart married Constanze Weber in 1782. He had first proposed to Constanze’s older sister, who had rejected his suit. In spite of this earlier proposal and financial difficulties, their marriage was a happy one until Mozart’s death in 1791 at the age of 35.
 * 5) Much of the present fascination with the personal life of Mozart was generated by the film //Amadeus//. However, a good deal of the film’s story, including the rivalry between Mozart and Antonio Salieri, is fictionalized. Mozart most likely died of kidney failure, not of poisoning. Further, while Mozart did suffer occasional cash flow problems because of slow paying patrons, he actually made a rather large amount of money for a musician. He was buried in a common grave with little fanfare, but not because of poverty: it was the usual burial practice for all but the wealthiest members of society in Mozart’s time and place.

The boy's early talent for music was remarkable. At three he was picking out chords on the harpsichord, at four playing short pieces, at five composing. There are anecdotes about his precise memory of pitch, about his scribbling a concerto at the age of five, and about his gentleness and sensitivity (he was afraid of the trumpet). Just before he was six, his father took him and Nannerl, also highly talented, to Munich to play at the Bavarian court, and a few months later they went to Vienna and were heard at the imperial court and in noble houses. Mozart's full birth name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart. parents: Anna Maria Pertl Mozart and Leopold Mozart Siblings: had six children: Raimund Leopold, Karl Thomas, Johann Thomas Leopold, Theresia Constanzia Adelheid Friedericke Maria AnnaMaria, and Franz Xaver Wolfgang. Credits:Wolfgang Amandeus Mozart biography