His father pushed Archduke Ferdinand of Parma to hire Mozart as his personal composer, but Ferdinand's mother, the Empress, was against the employ of " useless persons. Mozart was soon accepted as a member of the Accademia Filarmonica before earning a series of commissions based on the success of his opera, Mitridate, Re Di Ponto. The two child prodigies began their extensive tour in 1762 at the court of Prince-elector Maximilian III of Bavaria in Munich, and for the next three and half years, the family traveled the continent, performing for royalty.ĭuring this time, at the age of eight, the young Mozart composed his first symphony and finally broke out on his own in 1769, when he and his father left for a two-year tour of Italy. Leopold Mozart had musical ambitions himself, but after realizing that his son held true talent, he stopped composing completely and essentially began working as young Mozart's manager.īefore Mozart was a singular force in the world of music, he was only one half of a brother-sister musical act. Mozart studied everything under his father, from languages to music to math. At the age of five, he was already composing little pieces, which he played to his father, who wrote them down. He could play it faultlessly and with the greatest delicacy, and keeping exactly in time.
In the fourth year of his age his father, for a game as it were, began to teach him a few minuets and pieces at the clavier.
His only surviving sibling was his sister Nannerl, who noted Mozart's talent early in his life, later writing: He often spent much time at the clavier, picking out thirds, which he was ever striking, and his pleasure showed that it sounded good. He was the youngest of seven children, five of whom passed away in infancy. The composer known the world over simply as Mozart was born Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart on Januin Salzburg, Austria. We're still talking about Mozart, so his lifelong efforts to create something important seem to have paid off.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart only lived to be 35 years old, but in his brief time on Earth, he composed more than 600 works that came to be known as the height of symphonic music.
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