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much the reason behind’s Wolfgang’s education. By the age of three he could play the

piano, and he was composing by the time he was five. Mozart's elder sister Maria Anna

was also a gifted keyboard player, and in 1762 their father took the two prodigies on a

short performing tour, of the courts at Vienna and Munich.

Encouraged by their reception, they embarked the next year on a longer tour,

including two weeks at Versailles, where the children enchanted Louis XV. In 1764 they

arrived in London. Here Mozart wrote his first three symphonies, under the influence of

Johann Christian Bach, youngest son of Johann Sebastian, who lived in the city. After

their return to Salzburg there followed three trips to Italy between 1769 and 1773. In

Rome, Mozart heard a performance of Allegri's Misere; the score of this work was

closely guarded, but Mozart managed to transcribe the music almost perfectly from

In 1769 Mozart was appointed concertmaster to the archbishop of Salzburg, and

later in the same year, at La Scala, he was made a chevalier of

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He took up residence in Vienna and

in 1782 his opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The abdication from the Seraglio) was

produced in the city and rapturously received. Nikolaus Von

Nissen died in 1826, and Constanze in 1842. Initially his efforts met with some success. The Mozarts returned to Salzburg in 1771.

Mozart had an unsuccessful career and died young, but he ranks as one of the

great geniuses of Western civilization. Hieronymus,

count von Colloredo, the successor to the archbishop of Salzburg, who had died while the

Mozarts were touring Italy, cared little for music. The

Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni, with librettos by Lorenzo Da Ponte, while

successful in Prague, were partial failures in Vienna. He became ill in autumn 1791 and died on December 5; his burial the next day was attended only by a gravedigger. For the coronation of Emperor Leopold II in

1791 he wrote the opera seria La clemenza di Tito. His three great symphonies of 1788-

no.

His music from the preceding decade was only sporadically popular, and he eventually

fell back on his teaching jobs and on the charity of friends to make ends meet. (The author of the commission was in fact Count Franz von Walsegg, who wished to pass off the work as his own.

A master of every form in which he worked, he set standards of excellence that

have inspired generations of composers. On delivering his resignation

he was verbally abused and eventually, physically ejected from the archbishop's

residence.

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