Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in January 1756 in Salzburg in Austria.

His musical talent was showed from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age five and performed before European royalty.

At seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg. Visiting Vienna in 1781 he was dismissed from his Salzburg position and chose to stay in the capital, where over the rest of life he achieved fame but little financial security. The final years in Vienna yielded many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas e.g.” The Marriage of Figaro”, “Don Giovanni”, and the unfinished “Requiem”.

He was inspired in Baroque style, fugal passages in “ The Magic Flute” and Symphony No. 41 had a powerful Baroque style influence.

He was an influential and most popular composer of the Classical era. He composed over six hundred works of symphonic, chamber, piano, operatic and choral music.

Beethoven wrote his own early composition in the shadow of Mozart, of whom Joseph Haydn - Mozart’s friend- wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years “.

W. A. Mozart died in December 1791.