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Who was Mozart, beyond the child prodigy?

Six hundred works in thirty-five years: the meteor of Salzburg.

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Carlo Raso · "Le nozze di Figaro" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Royal San Carlo Theatre in Naples 04 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) is the very image of early genius. Born in Salzburg, he produced more than 600 works in thirty-five years and transformed Western music.

His life also tells the story of a social shift, from the musician as a court servant to the artist as an independent. That search, costly and fragile, pointed toward Romanticism and the modern idea of the free composer.

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