Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756 -- 1791 Composer. Born January 27, 1756, in Salzburg. His father, Leopold Mozart, a noted composer and pedagogue and the author of a famous treatise on violin playing, was then in the service of the archbishop of Salzburg. Together with his sister, Nannerl, Wolfgang received such intensive musical training that by the age of six, he was a budding composer and an accomplished keyboard performer. In 1762, Leopold presented his son as a performer at the …showed first 75 words of 2645 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2645 total…belief that he was, in effect, writing it for himself. Ill and exhausted, he managed to finish the first two movements and sketches for several more, but the last three sections were entirely lacking when he died. At the urgings of Mozart's wife, Constanze, whom he married in 1782, his pupil Franz Süssmayer completed it after Mozart's death, on December 5, 1791. Close to destitute at the time of his death, Mozart was given a third-class funeral.