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thats his real name**Johannes hrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart**[(27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the [|Classical era]. He composed over 600 [|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 17, he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. While visiting [|Vienna] in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the [|//Requiem//], which was largely unfinished at the time of Mozart's death. The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized. He was survived by his wife [|Constanze] and two sons.

Mozart learned voraciously from others, and developed a brilliance and maturity of style that encompassed the light and graceful along with the dark and passionate. His influence on subsequent Western [|art music] is profound. [|Beethoven] wrote his own early compositions in the shadow of Mozart, and [|Joseph Haydn] wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years."[|[][|3][|]]