- Fact 2 - Full name: Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
- Fact 3 - Born January 27, 1756 in
Salzburg, Austria
- Fact 4 - His sister's name was
Maria Anna who was five years older than Wolfgang
- Fact 5 - The pet names of the
children were Wolferl and Nannerl
- Fact 6 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
started to study when he was four
- Fact 7 - Mozart went on a concert
tour with his sister when he was 6 years old - he was the
greatest child star that ever lived
- Fact 8 - When he was a child he
visited many great cities, among them Paris, London and Vienna
- Fact 9 -
Handel and
Haydn
were living when Mozart was born
- Fact 10 - Benjamin Franklin, George
Washington, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and Walter Scott
were all alive during the time of Mozart
- Fact 11 - Mozart was 5 years old
when he wrote his first composition
- Fact 12 - Mozart wrote over 600
works during his lifetime, including 41 symphonies and 27
piano concertos
- Fact 13 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
learned to speak 15 different languages
- Fact 14 - Mozart composed very
quickly and wrote huge amounts of music
- Fact 15 - He was extremely
extravagant and constantly in debt
- Fact 16 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
died of of kidney failure December 5, 1791 in Vienna, Austria
- Fact 17 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
was buried in a pauper's grave
- Fact 18 - His music lives on and
the musical works of Mozart include the following:
- The Requiem
- Operas include:
- Don Giovanni
- The Marriage of Figaro
- The Magic Flute
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