Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus(Mozart, Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart)

1756 - Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart was born on January 27.  Mozart's father Leopold Mozart (1719–1787) was one of Europe's leading musical teachers.

1759 - Leopold, gave Wolfgangn intensive musical training, including instruction in clavier, violin, and organ. 

1761 - Mozart's first compositions, a small Andante (K. 1a) and Allegro (K. 1b), were written.

1762 - Mozart started to make several European journeys, beginning at the Court of the Elector of Bavaria in Munich, then in the same year at the Imperial Court in Vienna and Prague.  The tour lasted for three and a half years in places like Munich, Mannheim, Paris, London (where Wolfgang Amadeus played with the famous Italian cellist Giovanni Battista Cirri), The Hague, again to Paris, and back home via Zürich, Donaueschingen, and Munich.

1764-1765 - Johann Christian Bach befriended Wolfgang.

1769-1773 - Mozart was commissioned to compose three operas: "Mitridate Rè di Ponto" (1770), "Ascanio in Alba" (1771), and "Lucio Silla" (1772), all three of which were performed in Milan.  A legendary tale, occurred when he heard Gregorio Allegri's Miserere once in performance in the Sistine Chapel then wrote it out in its entirety from memory, only returning to correct minor errors; thus producing the first illegal copy of this closely-guarded property of the Vatican.

1782 - On August 4, he married Constanze Weber.

1791 - Mozart died at approximately 1 a.m. on December 5, in Vienna.

Some of Mozart's work: 

 Symphonies (1764-1771)

• Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major, K. 16
• Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major, K. 17 (spurious)
• Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, K. 18 (spurious, by Abel)
• Symphony No. 4 in D major, K. 19
• Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, K. 22
• Symphony No. 6 in F major, K. 43
• Symphony No. 7 in D major, K. 45
• Symphony No. 8 in D major, K. 48
• Symphony No. 9 in C major, K. 73
• Symphony No. 10 in G major, K. 74
• Symphony No. 11 in D major, K. 84
• Symphony No. 12 in G major, K. 110
• Symphony No. 13 in F major, K. 112

Salzburg-era Symphonies (1771-1781)

• Symphony No. 14 in A major, K. 114 (1771)

• Symphony No. 15 in G major, K. 124 (1772)
• Symphony No. 16 in C major, K. 128 (1772)
• Symphony No. 17 in G major, K. 129 (1772)
• Symphony No. 18 in F major, K. 130 (1772)
• Symphony No. 19 in E-flat major, K. 132 (1772)
• Symphony No. 20 in D major, K. 133 (1772)
• Symphony No. 21 in A major, K. 134 (1772)
• Symphony No. 22 in C major, K. 162 (1773)
• Symphony No. 23 in D major, K. 181 (1773)
• Symphony No. 24 in B-flat major, K. 182 (1773)
• Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183 (173d B) (1773)
• Symphony No. 26 in E-flat major, K. 184 (1773)
• Symphony No. 27 in G major, K. 199 (1773)
• Symphony No. 28 in C major, K. 200 (1774)
• Symphony No. 29 in A major, K. 201 (1774)
• Symphony No. 30 in D major, K. 202 (1774)

Piano Concertos

• Piano Concerto No. 1 in F major, K. 37
• Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, K. 39
• Piano Concerto No. 3 in D major, K. 40
• Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, K. 41
• Piano Concerto No. 5 in D major, K. 175
• Piano Concerto No. 6 in B flat major, K. 238
• Piano Concerto No. 7 in F major for Three Pianos, K. 242
• Piano Concerto No. 8 in C major, K. 246 'Lutzow'
• Piano Concerto No. 9 "Jeunehomme" in E flat major, K. 271
• Piano Concerto No. 10 in E flat major for Two Pianos, K. 365
• Piano Concerto No. 11 in F major, K. 413/387a
• Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K. 414/385p
• Piano Concerto No. 13 in C major, K. 415/387b
• Piano Concerto No. 14 in E flat major, K. 449
• Piano Concerto No. 15 in B flat major, K. 450
• Piano Concerto No. 16 in D major, K. 451
• Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K. 453
• Piano Concerto No. 18 in B flat major, K. 456
• Piano Concerto No. 19 "Coronation I" in F major, K. 459
• Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
• Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467
• Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major, K. 482
• Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488
• Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
• Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503
• Piano Concerto No. 26 "Coronation II" in D major, K. 537
• Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K. 595

Violin Concertos

• Violin Concerto No. 1 in B flat major, K. 207 (1775)
• Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, K. 211 (1775)
• Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216 (1775)
• Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K. 218 (1775)
• Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219 (1775)
• Violin Concerto in E flat major, K. 268 (1780)
• Violin Concerto in D major, K. 271a Kolb (1777)

• "As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."
• "We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance."
• "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."