Mozart never went to school and was taught by his father, a professional musician and scholar. Mozart mastered both violin and organ by age 7, wrote his first symphony at age 9, and his first opera when he was 12. He learned quickly and was playing the harpsichord by age 4, composing music at age 5, and he performed his first recital at age 6 for the Empress of Austria. Mozart showed remarkable musical aptitude at an early age. Of course, many would say he was the greatest composer of all. So it seems fitting that Mozart is often ranked alongside Bach and Beethoven as one of the top three musical geniuses in history. Mozart was born six years after Johann Sebastian Bach’s death and fourteen years before Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth. As an adult he would sign his name “Wolfgang Amadè Mozart” or simply “Mozart.” Raised in a Roman Catholic home, Mozart remained a loyal member of the Church throughout his life, saying: “It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.” The baptismal record gives Mozart’s name in Latin as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. At that time the region was part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on Januto Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl Mozart in Salzburg, Austria. “Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.” ~ Sir Georg Solti, conductor
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