![]() ![]() During these tours, Mozart heard, absorbed, and learned various European musical idioms, eventually crystallizing his own mature style.įully expecting to find an ideal post outside his sleepy home town of Salzburg and the detested archiepiscopal court, in 1777 Wolfgang went on a tour with his mother to Munich, Mannheim, and Paris. Between the ages of seven and fifteen, the young Mozart spent half of his time on tour. The musical feats and tricks of young Wolfgang were exhibited to the courts (beginning in Munich in 1762), to musical academicians, and to the public. He was constantly traveling all over Europe with his father, Leopold Mozart (1719-1787), a violinist, minor composer and Vice-Kapellmeister at the court of the Archbishop of Salzburg. At six he began composing, writing his first symphonies at the age of eight. At five he was playing the clavier incredibly well. ![]() At the age of four he could learn a piece of music in half an hour. ![]()
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