Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His Life and Musical Activity

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; 1756–1791) was a great Austrian composer and virtuoso performer who revealed his phenomenal abilities already at the age of four. Mozart is one of the most popular classical composers, having had a profound influence on later Western music culture. According to contemporaries, Mozart had a phenomenal musical ear, memory, and the ability to improvise.

Mozart’s uniqueness lies in the fact that he worked in all the musical forms of his time and composed more than 600 works, many of which are recognized as the pinnacle of symphonic, concerto, chamber, opera, and choral music. The circumstances of Mozart’s ambiguous life, as well as his early death, were the subject of many speculations and disputes, which became the basis for numerous myths.