His father blamed Mozart for his mother’s death ... my wife was never to nurse her child,” Mozart wrote. “Yet I was equally ...

Mozart stayed with his father in Milan, when he was asked to write an opera for the wedding of Archduke Ferdinand Karl ...

Only one was done by this point, but Mozart famously wrote music in his head first ... Mozart named these works for Franz Joseph Haydn, the father of the string quartet. When Haydn had heard ...

Mozart was born in Salzburg, in 1756. Mozart's father, Leopold ... Mozart composed his first opera, Apollo et Hyacinthus when he was only 11. A year later the Emperor Joseph II commissioned him to ...

His father, Leopold, was a well-known musician ... Nevertheless, by 1800 it had been performed over 200 times across Europe. 9. Did Mozart write the soundtrack for his own funeral?

His father Leopold was a composer and violinist in the service ... Johann Christian Bach befriended them; one of the brothers Grimm (of fairy-tale fame) heard Mozart improvise and wrote: ‘I cannot be ...

Mozart was taught music by his father. He began composing at the age of 5, wrote his first symphony at 8 and his first opera at 11! As a teenager he and his sister were famous all over Europe ...

A piano work recently discovered to be composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) was performed for the first time in Asia ...