11 Facts You Might Not Have Known About Mozart

Cynthia — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:18:33 +0000

These facts are so amazing, you might find it hard to believe them to be true, but they are! Just read some of them and you, like me, will be astonished at what this great composer did in his life!

Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg, Austria.
His full name is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
He had begun to play the piano by the age of three.
By age five, Mozart was beginning to compose pieces.
By the time he was ten, Mozart was already playing in all the major courts of Europe!
When Mozart was 14, he wrote his first main opera, Mitridate Re di Ponto.
Over his career, Mozart wrote 17 operas, including The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, and Don Giovanni.
Mozart composed over 600 works. Of these, 41 were symphonies.
He got married to Constanze Weber in 1782.
Mozart died in 1791 at the age of 35.
He is believed to have most likely died because of kidney failure.

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11 Facts You Might Not Have Known About Mozart