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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

He was one of the most important composers in the Classicism.
He was born in Salzburg in 1756 and died in Vienna in 1791 at the age of 36.
He showed prodigious ability from this earliest childhood.
His father was a famous violin teacher and his sister, Nannerl, a keyboard virtuoso.
He started to compose at the age of five and performed to European royalty.
While Wolfgang was young, his family made several European journeys in which he and Nannerl performed as child prodigies.

At 17, he was a court musician in Salzburg, but he always looked for a better position.
In 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position, and he ran away to Vienna without his father's permission and married a singer friend: Constanze Webber.
He made a living by his music lessons and operas.
He got fame but he also financial problems.
Today, it's not clear what was the illness that killed Mozart. It is known that he was ill for a month before he died. Perhaps a kidney condition or a bacteria disease produced by rotten chicken meat are possible death reasons, but we'll never know.