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D 50020CD
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Five-CD set presenting 100 masterworks composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Performed by various orchestras and choirs from Germany, Hungary, Great Britain, Austria, Bulgaria, Slovakia -- with all the details and credits noted in the enclosed six-page leporello booklet.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born January 27th. 1756 -- died December 5th, 1791), baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was the prolific and influential composer of the classical era. Born in Salzburg (Austria), Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his early death at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death have been much mythologized.
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