4 CHAPTER 1 A MUSICAL GENIUS Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a famous composer He was born in Austria in 1756. Mozart was a prodigy He began playing and writing music when he was very young WATCH A VIDEO HERE
5 From an early age Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart showed great musical talent Mozart DID YOU wrote his first piece of music when he was only five years old KNOW
6 Courts often had their own stages where singers and musicians performed In the 1700s most composers worked for a court or a church Mozart was different He made money by
7 Mozart was born in this house in Salzburg Austria teaching lessons playing concerts and writing lots and lots of music DID YOU Mozart wrote more than 600 pieces of music during his life By age 15 he had written more than 100 pieces KNOW
