Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was an Austrian composer born in Salzburg, then capital of an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire. A child prodigy, he was already competent on keyboard and violin by age five and was touring European courts with his father Leopold before his teens. In 1781 he broke with his Salzburg employers and settled in Vienna, where he remained until his death, producing operas such as The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and The Magic Flute, along with dozens of symphonies, piano concertos, and chamber works. He completed more than 800 compositions in his lifetime despite dying at age 35, leaving his Requiem unfinished.

Widely regarded — including by his contemporary Joseph Haydn, who reportedly told Mozart’s father “your son is the greatest composer known to me, either in person or by name” — as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music, Mozart mastered and elevated virtually every musical genre of his era.

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Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._11_(Mozart)
• https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart