Wolfgang Amadues Mozart Biography

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• By Sirhan

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Who is Mozart?

• Mozart is a musician and pianist from Austria.
  Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 at Salzburg,
  Austria. He is baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus
  Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and
  influential composer of the Classical era. Mozart
  showed prodigious ability from his earliest
  childhood. He died on December 5, 1791 at Vienna,
  Austria

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Mozart Ancestor

• Mother Anna Maria Mozart
• Father Leopold Mozart

Leopold Mozart
Anna Maria Mozart
He was the youngest of seven children, five of
whom died in infancy. His elder sister is Maria
Anna Mozart.
Maria Anna Mozart
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How he started playing a musical instruments?

• At the age of 3 years (1759) Mozart began to
  play clavier (ancient stringed musical instrument
  equipped with a keyboard). A year later
  he began to show his talent in
  changing his first melody.

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• In 1762 Mozart study by himself to play the
  violin. In the same year, Mozart and his sister,
  Maria Anna Mozart was invited to play music in
  front of the Empress Theresa in Vienna. Empress
  was amazed.

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Mozart Love

• When Mozart has succeed changing a symphony in
  Paris, his mother died. Mozart grew up and he
  fell in love with the son of a musician, Aloysia
  Weber, but his father did not approve.

Constanze Weber Mozart
Finally he married Constanze Weber, sister of
Aloysia Weber, in 1782. Again Mozarts father,
Leopold, not blessing.
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Mozart Ancestry

• Mozart had two children named Karl Thomas and
  Franz Xaver. Mozart also teaches them to play the
  clavier and singing.

Franz Xaver Mozart
Karl Thomas Mozart
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Ways to provide for his family

• To support his family, Mozart wrote the opera.
  The most successful opera was The Marriage of
  Figaro in Vienna 1787. In the same year his
  father died.

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Mozart Died

• Mozart health is increasingly becoming
  unfavorable. He often fell ill, until on December
  5, 1791 he died at the age of 32 years. Mozart
  was buried in Marx Cemeteri ( 3 miles from
  Vienna). He died because lack of vitamins.

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Mozart Signature
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