Who was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

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Born in Austria in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his first piece of music, a minuet, when he was just five years old! Soon after, he was performing for kings and emperors. Although he died at the young age of thirty-five, Mozart left a legacy of more than 600 works. This fascinating biography charts the musician's extraordinary career and personal life while painting a vivid cultural history of eighteenth-century Europe. Black-and-white illustrations on every spread explore such topics as the history of opera and the evolution of musical instruments. There is also a timeline and a bibliography.

Illustrated by Carrie Robbins.
Cover illustration by Nancy Harrison.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? (p. 1)
• Little Boy, Big Talent (p. 4)
• Seeing the World (p. 31)
• The Wonder Boy Grows Up (p. 45)
• On His Own (p. 67)
• Family Man (p. 80)
• An Untimely End (p. 95)

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Horn Book Review

These short, illustrated books capture the lives of famous individuals with accessible prose. Each book spends considerable time explaining the childhood experiences of its subject and manages to give readers a sense of the individual's personality and motives. All but [cf2]Tallchief[cf1] and [cf2]Houdini[cf1] have bibliographies. Timeline. [Review covers these Who Wasà? titles: [cf2]Who Is Maria Tallchief?, Who Was Amelia Earhart?, Who Was Harriet Tubman?, Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?,[cf1] and [cf2]Who Was Harry Houdini?[cf1].] (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.