Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(January 27, 1756 - December 5, 1791)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 at the Hagenauersches Haus in Salzburg, Vienna. Mozart had become a master composer. In 1761 he composed his first minuets.
1768 Mozart became the honorary concertmaster for the Archbishop
where he composed his first opera La finta semplice. Works such as the Symphony No. 25 in G minor (K. 183) written in 1773, reveal his special abilities to create a dramatic musical atmosphere. Most of his compositions originated in Salzburg, Vienna.
At fifteen, Mozart was installed as the concertmaster in the orchestra of the Archbishop of Salzburg. Things did not go very well; Mozart didn't get along with the Archbishop, and relations deteriorated to the point where, in 1781, he quit this lofty position and headed for Vienna - quite against his father's wishes.
He married Constance Weber in 1782 and composed The Abduction from the Seraglio, and in 1786 he composed the famous Marriage of Figaro.
In 1788 he stopped performing in public, preferring to compose. But fortune never turned, and when he died in 1791 at the age of thirty-five, he was buried in a pauper's grave.
