![]() By five or six he was composing music of his own. By age four Mozart was playing short pieces on the piano. But the degree of his youthful abilities proved absolutely exceptional. In view of this, it was almost inevitable that Mozart should have shown an active interest in music from an early age. ![]() His father, Leopold Mozart, was a respected professional violinist and composer, and his older sister, Maria Anna, nicknamed “Nannerl”, played well on the keyboard. ![]() Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on Januin the Austrian city of Salzburg. George Bernard Shaw, who supplemented his career as a playwright by writing music criticism, stated flatly: “Mozart was the greatest of all musicians.”įranz Joseph Haydn, Mozart’s one equal among the composers of their day, said: “I only wish I could instill in every friend of music….the depth of sympathy and profound appreciation of Mozart’s inimitable art that I myself feel and enjoy.” Einstein was hardly alone in his opinion of Mozart’s artistic supremacy. The author of those words was Albert Einstein, an amateur musician as well as a visionary physicist. Beethoven ‘created’ his music, but the music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely ‘found’ it – that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.”
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