Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) was a prolific and influential Austrian composer of the classical era. He showed prodigious ability from his early childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. Despite artistic success, Mozart grew increasingly discontented with Salzburg, eventually settling in Vienna where he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas. He composed more than 600 works, many of which are acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music.
Quotes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart…
I have never written the music that was in my heart to write. Perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I know that hereafter it will be written. When, instead of these few inlets of the senses through which we now secure impressions from all without, there shall be a flood of impressions from all sides, and instead of these few tones of our little octave there shall be an infinite score of harmonies — for I feel it, I am sure of it. This world of music, whose borders even now I have scarcely entered, is a reality, is immortal.
