Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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An eighteenth-century Austrian composer; one of the great figures in the history of music. A child prodigy, Mozart began composing music before he was five. He, Franz Josef Haydn, and Ludwig van Beethoven are the leading composers of the classic era. Mozart wrote chamber music, symphonies, operas, and Masses. Three of his best-known compositions are the short work for orchestra Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music) and the operas Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro.

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But who needs one more perfectly excellent Mozart biography?
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You could strip away the bells and whistles and it would still be a perfectly excellent Mozart biography.
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Mozart: “The taste of death is upon my lips…I feel something, that is not of this earth.”
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The last movement had the infectious gayety that Mozart's things often have, with a magnificent cadenza by himself.
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He had at first some difficulty in deciding whether Soliva showed himself in that opera a plagiarist of Mozart or a genius.
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And why did Chopin regard Mozart as the ideal type, the poet par excellence?
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Control hadn't gotten around to making approved lists of music yet, though you'd surely never hear Mozart in a public place.
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