Biographical Sketches

Wolfgang A. Mozart

Composer

Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, later Johann Christoph Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart, and still later Wolfgang Amedei Mozart, was born in Austria on January 27, 1756, and died December 5, 1791. His friend Joseph Leutgeb, to whom the Horn Concerto No. 2 is dedicated, was born eighteen years before Mozart and outlived him by twenty years. (WMT)

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