Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 - December 5, 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. Mozart was a child prodigy. 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 while visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from this position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. Over the course of his lifetime, Mozart composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known works, including portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death. The circumstances of his early death, at the age of 35, have been much mythologized. He remains among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence on subsequent Western art music is profound. This image is a color enhancement of Mozart's 1783 portrait by Joseph Lange. The original hangs in the Mozarteum Salzburg.
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