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Salzburg, Austria
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart grew up in Salzburg under the regulation of his strict father Leopold who also was a famous composer of his time.
His abilities in music were obvious even when Mozart was still young so that his father took him in 1762 at the age of six with his elder sister on a concert tour to Munich and Vienna and a second one from 1763 to 66 through the south of Germany, Paris and London.
Mozart was celebrated as a wonderchild everywhere because of his excellent piano playing and his improvisations.In 1769 he became the concertmaster of the archbishop and was knighted by the pope in Rome.
Working in Salzburg he nevertheless travelled around Europe to meet other composers and orchestras.
But in 1781 after a dispute with the archbishop he left Salzburg and went to Vienna where he married 'Constanze Weber' from Mannheim.
In Vienna started also his friendship with Joseph Haydn and a time of many work pieces.
In the last year of his life he wrote e.g.
one of his masterpieces "Die Zauberflöte".
Although some of his operas where successful he could not make money from this and died at the age of 36 in poorness having even on his last day worked on a "Requiem".
He was burried in a massgrave for the poor which could not be identified exactly later.
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