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Symphonies 14 and 15

Symphonies 25 and 29

Requiem

Don Giovanni

Great Mass in C Minor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756, in Salzburg, Austria.  At the age of six, young Mozart was paraded around Europe to give musical demonstrations and play the harpsichord for nobles.  

Mozart was known to have perfect pitch and an uncanny ability to improvise and add musical accompaniment to existing pieces.  While he was still a very young child, Mozart began to compose works of his own.

During his teenage years, Mozart toured Europe and met a great number of "musical challenges" -- performance and composition assignments created by royalty.  The general consensus was that Mozart was the most inspired composer and performer that the world had ever known.

Around the age of 25, Mozart quit his lifestyle of court performances, and instead became a freelance musician.  Although he composed great operatic and symphonic works during this time, Mozart seemed to gradually "fall out of favor" with the musical climate.

At thirty, he found himself in financial distress.  Although his operas are now considered masterpieces, only The Magic Flute received widespread appreciation in its time.  In 1791, while working on a Requiem Mass commissioned by an anonymous benefactor, Mozart died of unknown causes.  He was 35 years old.

Mozart had an idealistic spirit, and is said to have written, "I maintain that kindness cures everything, that magnanimous conduct has often reconciled the bitterest enemies."  Another quote attributed to Mozart is: "Love, love, love -- that is the soul of genius."

In Peter Schaffer's Amadeus, Mozart says, "That's our job, we composers: to combine...the thoughts of chambermaids and Court Composers -- and turn the audience into God."