Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27. 1. 1756 - 5. 12. 1791) - Austrian composer, piano virtuoso. One of the world's greatest musical geniuses: in his short life he created six hundred twenty-six works.

Born in Salzburg as the youngest of seven children composer Leopold Mozart and his wife Anna Marie. Lived to adulthood, however, only he and his four years older sister Marie. Wolfgang's extraordinary talent manifested itself very early and got to the composition in just five years. Rumours about the prodigy quickly spread. Little Mozart featured in awe aristocratic families throughout Europe and also spoke in French and English royal court.

It was in England he met with Johann Sebastian Bach, who then gave him an hour on the piano.

In 1769, Mozart was appointed concert master of the Archbishop of Salzburg and in the period from 1770 to 1773, he undertook three study trips to Italy, making it perfectly know the local famous musical environment. In Italy also composed his opera Mithridates and Lucio Silla , and also serenaded Ascanius in Alba . In 1777 he attended another tour of Europe, this time with the mothers, but in Paris, fell ill and died. Mozart then returned to Salzburg, where he worked as an organist. The satisfaction, however, could not speak, his open-minded spirit demanded more and the desire to escape from services archbishop came to his escape to Vienna. In 1782 he married the daughter of his landlady, escalating an already tense relations with his father. Against marriage, it put his sister. To improve relationships not even after Mozart's later attempt at reconciliation.

Vienna period can be considered the pinnacle of his work. Arose the famous opera The Marriage of Figaro and (premiere May 1, 1786, Vienna) and Don Giovanni , which was first introduced to the world Amadeus in Prague (1787). Despite the successful adoption of these works with the audience, however, Mozart's financial situation worsened and growing debts or solve the three-month tour of the German states. And the money was really needed, because his wife, marked by the death of three children, physically and mentally languished and spa treatment was expensive. (Adulthood lived only one of Mozart's son). In 1790, Mozart in Frankfurt, the opera Cosi fan tutte , which rejected the Italian composer Antonio Salieri Emperor's services. He later went on another tour. In the autumn of the following year, however, the consequences of a short illness, he died and was buried in a mass grave, along with the bodies of the poor in Vienna. Recent works in progress Requiem , then at the request of Mozart's women finished his pupil Franz Xaver S�ssmayr.