Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the most popular composer of all time, whose precocity
and inspiration never cease to amaze, elevated the sonata, concerto, symphony
and opera to the classical perfection of his time, synthesizing galant and
savant styles, and endowing his works with harmonic audacity and humanistic
expressivity that heralded Romanticism. Born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, in
the Holy Roman Empire, Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart was the
youngest of Leopold Mozart's seven children, and the only survivor along with
his equally talented sister Maria Ann...