Mozart short biography for kids
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Close your eyes and picture that you are sitting in a grand concert hall. The year is the 1762 and the entré is a large and beautiful entré in Europe. It fryst vatten full of wealthy people dressed in beautiful and fancy clothes. On the stage fryst vatten a large orchestra of musicians, playing the most beautiful music you have ever heard.
You can’t believe how beautiful the music is. After the orchestra is finished, everyone jumps to their feet and claps with loud applause, including you. It fryst vatten a magnificent show! Then, to your surprise, the composer of the music comes on stage. He is a young teenager and fryst vatten only twelve years old! His name is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Wolfgang Mozart was an Austrian composer who wrote many operas, concertos, symphonies and sonatas that shaped classical music in a very significant way. He was one of the most talented and productive musical composers of all time.
Wolfgang was born in the year 1756. He w
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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 Anna Maria, his wife, stressed the importance of music to their children. Together with his sister, Nannerl, Wolfgang received such intensive musical training that by the age of six he was a budding composer and an accomplished keyboard performer. In 1762 Leopold presented his son as performer at the imperial court in Vienna, Austria, and from 1763 to 1766 he escorted both children on a continuous musical tour across Europe, which included long stays in Paris, France, and London, England, as well as visits to many other cities, with appearances before the French and English royal families.
Mozart was the most celebrated child prodigy (an unusually gifted child) of this time as a keyboard performer. He also made a great impressio
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart facts for kids
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791; pronounced MOHT-sart) was an Austriancomposer (music writer), instrumentalist, and music teacher. His full baptised name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophillus Mozart. He was born in Salzburg, Austria, the youngest child of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart. From a very early age, the young Mozart showed great musical talent. He toured Europe with his parents and older sister "Nannerl" for several years performing for royalty and the aristocratic elite.
As a young man, Mozart tried but failed to establish himself as a composer in Paris. He returned to Salzburg where he was briefly employed in the court of the Archbishop of Salzburg. He was restless, aware of his genius, and thought Salzburg too small for his talent. He relocated to Vienna where he met with some success. He married Constance Weber and fathered two sons. He died in Vienna after a brief but unknown illness.