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- As a child prodigy Mozart
toured Europe and became widely regarded as a miracle of nature because
of his musical gifts as a performer and as a composer
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- From 1775 to 1780 Mozart was
based mainly in Salzburg working for the archbishop Hieronymous von
Colloredo
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- Many of Mozart’s most
impressive works date from the last decade of his life, 1781 to 1791,
which he spent primarily in Vienna
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- Mozart’s mastery often
demonstrates itself in an ability to expand and deepen the stylistic
possibilities of the time
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- Particularly innovative in
Mozart’s later work is his use of the clarinet, which was not a fixed
member of the orchestra at that time
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- Also successful as an
opera composer, Mozart wrote
three exceptional Italian operas to texts by Italian librettist Lorenzo
da Ponte
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- Mozart’s works were catalogued
chronologically by Austrian music bibliographer
Ludwig von Köchel
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