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Learn 8 facts about the classical music composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Mozart’s father and sister were musical, too.
Barbara Krafft, Posthumous Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1819 (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
During this time, Mozart’s reputation as a child prodigy grew enormously.
He began writing his own compositions at age 5.
It was quickly followed by Allegro in C, K. 1b and Allegro in F, K. 1c.
Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, “The Mozart family on tour: Leopold, Wolfgang, and Nannerl,” 1793 (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Mozart met Marie Antoinette.
Supposedly, Mozart slipped on a polished floor and Marie Antoinette helped him to his feet.
Afterward, Mozart was said to have proposed to the future queen of France.
Anonymous (sometimes attributed to Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni, “Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at age Seven,” 1763 (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Mozart wrote his first opera at age 11.
It was commissioned by the Benedictine University in Salzburg and only performed once during his lifetime.
He was very fashionable.
Jean-Étienne Liotard, “Portrait of Archduchess Marie Antoinette of Austria, Future Queen of France, at Age Seven,” 1762 (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Mozart created over 6oo compositions during his lifetime.
He didn’t finish his last composition.
A section of a page from the manuscript of W.A.
Attributed to Giambettino Cignaroli, “Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at age 13–14,” c. 1770 (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
He died on December 5, 1791, without finishing his final composition.
His death most likely wasn’t triggered by poison.
For a time, it was believed that one of Mozart’s rivals Antonio Salieri may have poisoned him.
Stephan Sedlaczek, “The Young Mozart at the Spinet,” 1936 (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Reportedly, Mozart himself claimed he was poisoned when he was on his deathbed.
Fortepiano played by Mozart in 1787, Czech Museum of Music, Prague (Photo:Wikimedia Commons,CC BY-SA 3.0)
A section of a page from the manuscript of W.A. Mozart’s Requiem, K 626, 1791 (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Franz Schramm, “Moment from the Last Days of Mozart,” 1857 (Photo:Wikimedia Commons,CC BY-SA 3.0)
