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Wolfgang Mozart

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Born at 8:00pm-LMT Son of well-known violin teacher and occasional composer Leopold Mozart In Salzburg, Austria, his birthplace, there is a Mozart museum, and the Salzburg Festival, held every year, is largely devoted to his music. Many shops and streets in Salzburg are named after him as well. Wrote Eine Kleine Nachtmusik in one day. Had a photographic memory, and could play an entire piece of music after hearing it only once. Reports of his writing music without revisions were proven right. Sheet music in his hand exist that have no corrections or re-inclusions. Often worked as a musical tutor. Was so taken by the sound created by the "Glass Harmonica", a musical instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin, that he composed several pieces of music for it. Mozart's children: Raimund Leopold (17 June - 19 August 1783); Karl Thomas (21 September 1784 - 31 October 1858); Johann Thomas Leopold (18 October - 15 November 1786); Theresia Constanzia Adelheid Friedericke Maria Anna (27 December 1787 - 29 June 1788); Anna Maria (b/d 25 December 1789); Franz Xaver Wolfgang (26 July 1791 - 29 July 1844). Neither Karl or Franz married or had children. Described Constanze in a letter to his father: "She is not ugly, but at the same time, far from beautiful. Her entire beauty consists of two little black eyes and a nice figure. She isn't witty, but has enough common sense to enable her to fulfill her duties of wife and mother... she understands housekeeping and has the kindest heart in the world. I love her and she loves me." In 1809, Constanze married Danish diplomat Georg Nikolaus von Nissen (1761 - 1826). A Mozart fanatic, he edited vulgar passages out of many of the composer's letters, and wrote a Mozart biography. His death is presumed to have been brought on by mercury poisoning while being treated for syphilis. Son of Leopold Mozart. Began playing the harpsichord at the age of three. The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard considered Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni" to be the greatest work of art ever made. He devotes an entire essay in his book "Either/Or" to defending this claim. Contrary to popular belief, Mozart was not buried in a "mass grave", but in a regular communal grave according to the 1783 laws. The original grave site in St. Marx Cemetary has since been lost, but memorial gravestones have been placed where he is thought to be buried. He preferred to be known as Wolfgang Amadé Mozart. The Latin Amadeus became popular because it is the name his widow used - both in the parish death register and when asking for a pension. A benefit held in Prague in 1791 was billed as "Concert in memory of Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart is the Latin version of his baptismal names. The first two are saints names because he was born on the feast of St John Chrysostom. Theophilus, which means lover of god (or loved by god), is the Greek version (after his grandfather. Theophilus in German is Gottlieb, in French it is Amadé (which the multilingual Mozart preferred) or in Latin it is Amadeus. In honor of Mozart's 250th birthday, all the church bells in Salzburg were rung simultaneously at the exact hour of his birth.