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Johann Sebastian Bach1685 – 1750
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Domenico Scarlatti1685 – 1757
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George Frideric Handel1685 – 1759
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Joseph Haydn1732 – 1809
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart1756 – 1791
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Ludwig van Beethoven1770 – 1827
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Niccolò Paganini1782 – 1840
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Gioachino Rossini1792 – 1868
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Franz Schubert1797 – 1828
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Hector Berlioz1803 – 1869
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Mikhail Glinka1804 – 1857
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Felix Mendelssohn1809 – 1847
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Frédéric Chopin1810 – 1849
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Robert Schumann1810 – 1856
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Franz Liszt1811 – 1886
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Richard Wagner1813 – 1883
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Jacques Offenbach1819 – 1880
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Alexander Borodin1833 – 1887
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Georges Bizet1838 – 1875
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Modest Mussorgsky1839 – 1881
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1840 – 1893
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov1844 – 1908
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Gustav Mahler1860 – 1911
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Claude Debussy1862 – 1918
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Richard Strauss1864 – 1949
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Jean Sibelius1865 – 1957
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Erik Satie1866 – 1925
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Alexander Scriabin1872 – 1915
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Sergei Rachmaninoff1873 – 1943
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Maurice Ravel1875 – 1937
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Igor Stravinsky1882 – 1971
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Sergei Prokofiev1891 – 1953
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Carl Orff1895 – 1982
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George Gershwin1898 – 1937
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Dmitri Shostakovich1906 – 1975

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1756 — 1791

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756 — 1791
Key works to know
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Mozart essentials
  • Austrian Classical-era composer; together with Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven he is associated with the Viennese Classical school.
  • Born 27 January 1756 in Salzburg; died 5 December 1791 in Vienna.
  • From early childhood he toured as a prodigy - performing on keyboard and violin and composing; in 1763-1766 he and his sister Maria Anna (“Nannerl”) made a concert tour of major Western European centers, including Paris and London.
  • As a teenager he was connected to service at the Salzburg court; in the early 1780s he moved to Vienna and worked as an independent composer and performer.
  • Left more than 600 works in many genres; much of the repertoire is identified by Kochel (K) numbers - the chronological catalogue of his works.
  • Worked in the main genres of his time - opera, symphony, concerto, chamber and sacred music; his style is considered exemplary of mature Classicism.
  • The Marriage of Figaro - an opera (opera buffa), premiered on 1 May 1786 in Vienna (Burgtheater).
  • Don Giovanni - an opera (dramma giocoso), premiered on 29 October 1787 in Prague (Estates Theatre).
  • The Magic Flute - a German Singspiel (opera with spoken dialogue), premiered in 1791 in Vienna; the Requiem (K 626) - a funeral Mass left unfinished at Mozart’s death and later completed by Franz Xaver Sussmayr from surviving materials.