Mozart. After digging though lots of information, it is easy to see that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prodigy child

Authors Avatar

        After digging though lots of information, it is easy to see that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prodigy child. “At age five he was creating minuets that are now classics for beginning piano students.”-Student Research Center. Mozart was born January 27 1756 Salzburg, Austria. “Mozart’s father, Leopold was a professional musician and deputy Kapellmeister for the archbishop of Salzburg.”- Student Research Center Leopold could tell his son at 3 years old had musical talent.

Wolfgang played many concerts at this age, but never more than one a day. He even played for royal families. “Suffice it to say that Wolfgang jumped up on the Empress’ lap, put his arm around her and kissed her whole heartedly. But it was grueling work, too, and the risks were great. This was made painfully clear in the late October when Wolfgang became ill with something diagnosed as “ scarlet fever rash”. Within tow weeks Wolfgang was well again, but this episode was a potent of more serious health problems to come. J.G. Wolfgang Mozart, the toast of Viennese society, was still two mouths shy of his seventh birthday.”-Mozart project

Join now!

Mozart continued to tour and write music. “When the family went to Vienna in 1768, Italy Roman Emperor Joseph II commissioned the boy to write the opera La finta semplus (The Feigned Simpleton). This is the first instance when Mozart aroused the professional jealously of other composers, who were shocked to learn that a 12-year-old boy was to be treated as their equal”- Student Research Center

Mozart returned to Salzburg. By this time he had mastered almost every genre. “It was not until about 1773, when Mozart was seventeen and had written more than two dozen symphonies, that his true genius ...

This is a preview of the whole essay