Mozart

If Beethoven was on the verge of God through his tireless struggle, then Mozart was an angel on earth.

　　Mozart was born in Salzburg to a family of court musicians and showed great musical talent at an early age, improvising and composing brilliantly. The company's main goal is to provide a comprehensive range of products and services to the public.

　　Mozart learned music as naturally as any other baby learns to talk. He had a sister named Marianne. When Wolfgang was just walking, he listened while his father gave little Marianne music lessons. Then he toddled over to the plucked antique piano and played the material from beginning to end without missing a beat. By the time he was four, he was not only playing the plucked piano, but he was writing delicate minuets and even a concerto for the orchestra. Without anyone knowing it, he got a small violin and learned to play it. One day, while his father and three friends were playing a string quartet in the garden gazebo, Wolfgang Jr. played the second violin section without a hitch! They were all amazed, and he finished the first violin part as well. He was an outstanding pianist, could play concertos by sight and could improvise. He began composing at the age of six: at eight he wrote his first symphony, at eleven his first oratorio, at twelve his first opera, and at fourteen he conducted twelve performances of that opera. He first wrote his own six quartets in 1773, after hearing Haydn's string quartets, in the same year, at the age of seventeen.

　　At first, Mozart's father took the two children to the German musical city of Munich. There, they made all the people go crazy with pleasure. They stopped in every German and Austrian town and gave concerts in the palaces of the nobility. In one of the monasteries, the children were amazed by the skillfulness of the organ by the benevolent monks, who had never tried to play the instrument before. They were often invited to play in the homes of dukes and princes. The moment they had been waiting for came: they were invited to perform in the palace of the emperor. The children played in front of the Emperor and Empress and their entire court. Little Wolfgang was asked to give various examinations: he played a difficult concerto by the court composer, who turned the score for him and watched his brilliant improvisations on the theme; he played with one finger and on a keyboard covered with a piece of cloth. Finally, the emperor called him a little magician. The empress gave each child a diamond ring, a white silk costume for Mariana, and a lavender silk costume with wide gold trim for Wolfgang.

　　Mozart's family traveled for three years in public carriages through Germany, France, England, and Holland. They stopped for concerts at every place where a duke or prince presided over the court. The noble ladies doted on the little boy so much that the father wrote to a friend that he wished they had given the boy as many gold coins as they had given him kisses.

　　One English critic wrote: "This child understands more music by instinct than many cathedral teachers have learned in a lifetime of study." When Mozart's family returned to Salzburg, they had brought with them many fine textiles with decorative patterns, shawls, satin, snuff boxes, rings, and other gifts enough to open a store, but not much money, and all the money they had earned at concerts had been spent on the trip. His father realized: that if the boy was allowed to stay too long in Salzburg, he would soon be forgotten by the crowd.

　　So he planned another traveling performance, this time to Italy, a country that was very important musically at that time. At that time, every city in Italy had an opera house, and its opera composers and cantors were in demand all over the world, often crowding out the work of local musicians. The father thought that if Wolfgang could gain a reputation in Italy, his path in the world would be easier. Father and son embarked on a tour of Italian cities, which was a triumphant success from start to finish. Wealthy ladies poured all kinds of gifts on him, and people commissioned him to write operas for the Grand Opera in Milan. In Naples, he played so much that simple old folk was amazed that they thought his diamond ring must be magic and asked to take it off to see. In Rome, they went to hear a sacred work in the Sistine Chapel the week before the Feast of the Resurrection. The choir was so guarded about the score that no one was ever allowed to copy it down. Wolfgang went back to his room and wrote it out from memory alone!