*GENIUS COMPOSER WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 1880 CABINET PHOTO*

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A rare original cabinet photo circa 1880 of the genius composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Light wear otherwise good. An amazing early musical image!
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From Wikipedia:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
[a]
(27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart
,
[b]
was a prolific and influential composer of the
Classical period
. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than
800 works
of virtually every genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the
symphonic
,
concertante
,
chamber
,
operatic
, and
choral
repertoire. Mozart is among the greatest composers in the history of Western music,
[1]
and his elder colleague
Joseph Haydn
wrote: "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years".
[2]
Born in
Salzburg
, in the
Holy Roman Empire
, 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, embarking on a
grand tour
and then
three trips to Italy
. 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 Vienna, 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
are largely uncertain, and have thus been much mythologized.