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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1756 - 1791

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoires. Mozart is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with his music admired for its "melodic beauty, its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the 2nd most popular composer, the most popular biography from Austria (up from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Composer.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is most famous for being a prolific composer of classical music.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ranks 2 out of 1,451. Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven. After him are Johann Sebastian Bach, Frédéric Chopin, Antonio Vivaldi, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi, George Frideric Handel, Joseph Haydn, Richard Wagner, Franz Schubert, and Igor Stravinsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ranks 1. After him are Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria, William Godwin, Maria Theresa of Savoy, Duke Louis of Württemberg, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Aaron Burr, Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, and Louis Henri, Prince of Condé. Among people deceased in 1791, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ranks 1. After him are Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Grigory Potemkin, John Wesley, Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, Jacob Frank, Étienne Maurice Falconet, Ignaz von Born, Joseph Gaertner, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, Johan Andreas Murray, and João de Loureiro.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ranks 1 out of 1,424. After him are Adolf Hitler (1889), Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830), Joseph Haydn (1732), Franz Schubert (1797), Maria Theresa (1717), Marie Antoinette (1755), Franz Liszt (1811), Johann Strauss II (1825), Gustav Klimt (1862), Erwin Schrödinger (1887), and Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947).

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Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ranks 1. After him are Joseph Haydn (1732), Franz Schubert (1797), Johann Strauss II (1825), Johann Strauss I (1804), Anton Bruckner (1824), Arnold Schoenberg (1874), Anton Webern (1883), Alban Berg (1885), Carl Czerny (1791), Alma Mahler (1879), and Josef Strauss (1827).

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