Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756.� He had great talent on music that he started composing minuets at the age of 5 and symphonies at 9.� His father, a� violinist, took him on a series of concert tours together with his sister, Maria Anna.� Both played the keyboard, but Wolfgang became a violin virtuoso as well.� From that time on, young Mozart was performing and writing music which made many astonish by his talents.

Mozart's career in Vienna was promising when he began in 1782.� He was in great demand as a performer and composition teacher, and his first opera, was a hit.� Even so, life has not been easy for him as he was a poor business man and his finances was tight.� In 1782 he married Constanze Weber from Germany.

Mozart's greatest success was The Marriage of� Figaro which he composed for the Vienna Opera in 1786.� In 1788 he stopped performing in public, preferring to compose.� When he died in December 5th, 1791 at a young age of thirty five, he was buried in an unmarked grave at the cemetery of St. Marx.