Leopold eventually gave up composing when his son's outstanding musical talents became evident. Father and son were close, and these childhood accomplishments brought tears to Leopold's eyes. His first ink-spattered composition and his precocious efforts with the violin were on his own initiative, and came as a great surprise to Leopold. 1b).īiographer Maynard Solomon notes that while Leopold was a devoted teacher to his children, there is evidence that Wolfgang was keen to make progress beyond what he was being taught. At the age of five he was already composing little pieces, which he played to his father who wrote them down.Īmong these pieces were the Andante (K. He could play it faultlessly and with the greatest delicacy, and keeping exactly in time. In the fourth year of his age his father, for a game as it were, began to teach him a few minuets and pieces at the clavier. He often spent much time at the clavier, picking out thirds, which he was always striking, and his pleasure showed that it sounded good. Years later, after his death, she reminisced: When Nannerl was seven she began keyboard lessons with her father, and her three-year-old brother would look on, evidently fascinated. He was also an experienced teacher, and in the year of Mozart's birth published a successful violin textbook, Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule. His father Leopold (1719–1787) was deputy Kapellmeister to the court orchestra of the Archbishop of Salzburg, and a minor composer. He generally called himself "Wolfgang Amadè Mozart" as an adult, but there were many variants. The baptismal record gives his name in Latinized form as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. Wolfgang was baptized the day after his birth at St. His only sibling to survive past birth was Maria Anna (1751–1829), called "Nannerl". Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl Mozart at 9 Getreidegasse in Salzburg, capital of the sovereign Archbishopric of Salzburg, in what is now Austria, but then part of the Holy Roman Empire.
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