Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
first opera at age of 10.
In 1769 Mozart started to work in outdoor chapel concertmaster in Salzburg archbishop's
court. His father worked there as chapel master. He passed successfully the exam and after that he
became a member of the Bologna Academy of Music.
Mozart left the archbishop court in 1781 and went to live in Vienna. In Vienna he worked as a
freelance music teacher, pianist and organ player. Since 1787 he was the court chamber musician.
Mozart and Contanze Weber were Maried in 4. august in 1782. They had six children:
Raimond Leopold, Karl Thomas, Johann Thomas Leopold, Theresia Constanzia Adelheid
Friedericke Maria Anna, Anna Maria and Franz Xaver Wolfgang. Four of them died young. Karl
Thomas lived 74 years and Franz Xaver Wolfgang lived 53 years.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna in 1791. In his last few years he composed most
of his best-known shymphonies and operas. The causes of his early death have caused a lot
myths.