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Article: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Born: January 27, 1756
Salzburg, Austria
Died: December 5, 1791
Vienna, Austria
Austrian composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an Austrian composer (a writer of music) whose mastery of the whole range of contemporary (modern) instrumental and vocal forms
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including the symphony, concerto, chamber music, and especially the opera
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was unchallenged in his own time and perhaps in any other.
Child prodigy
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria. His father, Leopold Mozart, a noted composer, instructor, and the author of famous writings on violin playing, was then in the service of the archbishop of Salzburg. Leopold and ...