Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. Salzburg, 1756--d. Vienna, 1791).

Initially guided by his talented father, this precocious, shrewd, and widely-traveled genius wrote more than six hundred compositions in a vast number of genres. During his brief life Mozart served as concertmaster, musician, and composer to ecclesiastical and royal courts in Salzburg and Vienna and was received by royalty and other illustrious audiences and given honors and accolades throughout Europe. With infinite technical skill, musical imagination, and emotional insight he created profound yet accessible works, worldly and angelic, unparalleled in quality, ornament, and power, music that is a dramatization of the human condition. This legacy is fully displayed in his vocal repertoire, which includes operas, church music, songs, and arias.