Classical Collection - The Magic of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart- Part 1

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The first of three parts! Who Was Wolfgang Mozart? Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician capable of playing multiple instruments who started playing in public at the age of 6. Over the years, Mozart aligned himself with a variety of European venues and patrons, composing hundreds of works that included sonatas, symphonies, masses, chamber music, concertos and operas, marked by vivid emotion and sophisticated textures In this Podcast series John Low looks back on the life and times of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart... The boy’s early talent for music was remarkable. At three he was picking out chords on the harpsichord, at four playing short pieces, at five composing. At 13, Mozart had acquired considerable fluency in the musical language of his time, and he was especially adept at imitating the musical equivalent of local dialects.