Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart born 27 January 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. Mozart was an esteemed composer, widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. Unlike other composers in the history of music, he wrote in all musical genres of his time and excelled in each. His taste, his mastery of form and his expressive range made him seem the most universal of all composers; however, it can also be said that his music was written to suit the specific tastes of a particular audience. His father Leopold was the author of a famous violin manual published in the year of Mozart's birth. His mother, Anna Maria Pertly, was born to a bourgeois family active in local administration; Mozart and his sister Maria Anna were the only two of their parents' seven children to survive. Mozart was extremely talented at an early age, his father considered him the miracle of Salzburg, his early life and two of his greatest masterpieces are the three topics that will be discussed in this article.Mozart was talented in music from an early age at the age of three. he chose the chords on the harpsichord, at four he played short pieces, at five he composed. Before the age of six, his father took him and his sister to Munich to play at the Bavarian court, and a few months later they went to Vienna and were heard at the imperial court and in noble houses. At the age of seven he picked up a violin at a musical gathering and sight-read the second part of a work with absolute precision, despite having never taken violin lessons. In the years 1763-1766 Leopold obtained a leave of absence from his position and left the family... middle of paper ......at the end of the 18th century two firms had undertaken the creation of important collections of editions of his music. Important biographies appeared in 1798 and 1828, the latter by Constance's second husband; the first scholarly biography, by Otto Jahn, was published on the occasion of Mozart's centenary in 1856. The first edition of the Köchel catalog followed six years later, and the first complete edition of his music began in 1877. The catalog followed six years later, and the first complete edition of his music began in 1877. SOURCES http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/395455/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart http://www.allmusic.com/artist/wolfgang-amadeus -mozart- mn0000026350/biography http://classical-music-opera.com/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart/don-giovani-synopsis.html http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/395455/Wolfgang-Amadeus -Mozart/ 15617/From-Figaro-to-Don-Giovanni