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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was an Austrian composer who wrote a wide range of works including piano concertos, string quartets, symphonies, operas, and sacred music. Regarded as one of or perhaps the greatest natural musical talent...

An 1819 portrait by Barbara Krafft of the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791).

The fortepiano played by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) when he was in Prague in 1787. (Czech Museum of Music, Prague)

A facsimile sheet of the music handwritten by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) of the composer's Requiem (1791).

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K.620 / Act 2 - Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen (Königin der Nacht) · Karin Ott · Edith Mathis · Heinz Kruse · José van Dam · Berliner Philharmoniker · Herbert...

A c. 1781 painting by Johann Nepomuk della Croce showing Leopold Mozart (1719-1787) and his two children, Maria Anna (nicknamed ‘Nannerl’, 1751-1829) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791).

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was an Austrian composer of Classical music who is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in history. Haydn spent most of his career around Vienna, where he pioneered the symphony and string quartet format...

A portrait by Dora Stock of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Made two years before his death, it is regarded as one of the closest likenesses to the composer. (Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria)

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was an Italian composer of around 40 operas, including the comic operas The Italian Girl in Algiers and The Barber of Seville. Rossini championed melody and beautiful singing over operatic drama, rattling out...

Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) was a composer of German birth who took French citizenship and became famous in Paris for his comic operettas, a genre he created, and for the more serious opera, The Tales of Hoffmann. A virtuoso cellist, conductor...