Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27,1756 as the son of Anna-Maria and Leopold Mozart in Salzburg, Austria. Leopold and wife Anna-Maria had eight children, out of the eight Wolfgang and his sister were the only children to survive birth. At the age of five he began composing minuets and had learned how to play the clavier, the piano, the violin, and the organ very well at age six. Also at the …showed first 75 words of 519 total…

…showed last 75 words of 519 total…him such a genius is that he can almost put together a whole piece of music before even writing it down on paper. Another thing that made his work so popular is that he is a combination of the clear and graceful melody of the Italians and the formal and ingenuity of the German. The legend that the composer Antonio Salieri murdered Mozart has no support from reputable scholars. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Bibliography Microsoft Encarta 1997 Encyclopedia