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  1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [a] [b] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of ...

  2. The later 1780s were the height of his success, with the string quartets dedicated to Haydn (who called Mozart the greatest living composer), the three great operas on Lorenzo Da Ponte’s librettos— The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790)—and his superb late symphonies. In his last year he composed ...

  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major, K 543. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major, K 543; from a 1936 recording by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. This concert, which took place in Ludwigshafen, Germany, was the occasion of the first tape recording of an orchestra.

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  5. Jun 1, 2023 · Mozart by Krafft. Barbara Krafft (Public Domain) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was an Austrian composer who wrote a wide range of works including piano concertos, string quartets, symphonies, operas, and sacred music. Regarded as one of or perhaps the greatest natural musical talent ever, Mozart died penniless, aged 35, and was buried in ...

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  6. Symphony - Mozart, Orchestral, Classical: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart raised the symphony to heights that in many respects remain unsurpassed. Of his 50-odd symphonies, produced between 1764 and 1788, the earliest ones are conventional but precocious, reflecting influences of Johann Christian Bach, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, and Joseph Haydn. An invigorating first movement predominates ...

  7. May 14, 2018 · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was an Austrian composer whose mastery of the whole range of contemporary instrumental and vocal forms—including the symphony, concerto, chamber music, and especially the opera—was unrivaled in his own time and perhaps in any other. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on Jan. 27, 1756, in Salzburg.