Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg in Austria, the son of Leopold, Kapellmeister to the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. By the age of three, Wolfgang could play the piano, and he was composing music by the time he was five Mozart's older sister Maria Anna was also a gifted keyboard player, and in 1762 their father took the two prodigies on a short performing tour, of the courts at Vienna and Munich. Encouraged by the positive …
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…work as his own.) Mozart did not live to finish the Requiem. He became ill in autumn 1791 and died on December 5; his burial the next day was attended only by a gravedigger. Rumors that Mozart had been poisoned were often around in Vienna after his death, many suggesting that a rival composer named Antonio Salieri was responsible. Many now believe a heart weakened because of his many battles with rheumatic fever caused his death.