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. Happy Birthday! to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was born on January 27, 1756 at Getreidegasse 9, Salzburg, Austria (a territory of the Holy Roman Empire)

Mozart Facts • Learned the harpsichord from the age of three or four, and began to compose under his father's strict and demanding supervision when he was five. • By age six had already acquired a reputation throughout Europe as a musical prodigy.

Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Piano --Giovanni del Re

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In a 1782 letter to his sister, he gave a detailed account of these hectic days in Vienna: "My hair is always done by six o’clock in the morning and by seven I am fully dressed. I then compose until nine. From nine to one I give lessons. Then I lunch..."

From "Daily Rituals: How Artists Work", edited and with text by Mason Currey.