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OCR: Composers Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus CLOSE MO2 Born in Salzburg in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began Wolf playing the piano at the age of three and composing when he was only six. His father, Leopold, a court musician and a Salzbur minor composer, recognised his son's brilliance. Rather than nurturing the boy, Mozart's father chose to show him off, and as well took him on a series of European tours during which he al that, dazzled and amazed everyone with the beauty of his playing ude and his musical ability. laying By the age of eight, Mozart had composed the first of his 41 laged in symphonics; by the time he was 17, he had also written five operas, many concerti, sonatas, quartets, divertimenti and much else besides. He was undoubtedly a very talented individual, but his childhood - spent on tour where he was tragic treated more like a talented freak than a human being - left its ed in an mark on his character. Though he was certainly very MOZART, Wolfgang Piano Concerto No. 21 in C