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Article: A master whose genius endures; Christopher Morley reminds us why Mozart is still king, 250 years after the great composer's birth.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- January 26, 2006
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Byline: Christopher Morley
His employer dismissed him by having him kicked downstairs by a lackey' after a few years of fame he was reduced to writing begging-letters to his friends, and, when he died, still two months short of his 36th birthday, he was buried in an unmarked grave.
And millions of people regard him as the greatest composer who ever lived.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg a quarter of a millennium ago, on January 27 1756, and rapidly became a child prodigy. When still only four he was able to play pieces his older sister ...