a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.
At 17, [he was] a musician at the Salzburg court, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his early death at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death have been much mythologized.
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'I'd like to hear a disc of the Mozart Number Forty.' I don't know why that should have come into my gulliver, but it did.
Anthony Burgess. A Clockwork Orange, p.151 (1962)
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though I have heard most things—been at the opera in Vienna: Gluck, Mozart, everything of that sort. But I'm a conservative in music—it's not like ideas, you know. I stick to the good old tunes."
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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