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Article: Introduction to Mozart's Music
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- January 27, 2006
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MARTIN STEINBERG, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
01-27-2006
Mozart composed his first work three days before turning 5 and wrote his last notes as he lay dying only 30 years later. In all, he wrote at least 626 works, including some of the most beautiful music ever imagined.
His music, written during the days of powdered wigs and ruffled shirts, generally adheres to the highly structured classical style, a musical version of the triangles, rectangles and columns of a Greek temple. Despite the rigid architecture, in which a theme is stated over four measures and then answered during the next four measures, Mozart's music offers great variety and unsurpassed melodies.
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