Mozart parents: Meet Leopold Mozart & Anna Maria Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria Mozart. Leopold Mozart was a composer and music teacher who recognized his son’s talent at an early age and devoted himself to his son’s musical education.

Anna Maria Mozart was a trained Austrian singer who was born on January 5, 1762, in Zell im Wiesental, a town near Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, in the southwest of Germany.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period whose composition resulted in more than 800 works of virtually every genre of his time.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756, in Mozart’s Birthplace, Salzburg, Austria. Mozart died on  December 5, 1791, at at the age of 35 at Mozart’s death house, in Vienna, Austria.

Mozart was a child prodigy who began composing music at the age of five and was performing for royalty by the time he was six. Mozart’s early career was spent in Salzburg, where he worked as a court musician for the Archbishop of Salzburg.

Mozart also composed many symphonies, including the “Jupiter Symphony” (1788), and chamber music, such as the “Eine kleine Nachtmusik” (1787).