Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27, 1756. His parents were Leopold and Maria Pertl Mozart. Leopold was a composer, violinist and assistant concertmaster at the court of Salzburg. Wolfgang's mother was born into a middle-class family of local community leaders. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played many types of instruments from a young age. By the age of six, Mozart was already an advanced performer of keyboard instruments and a violinist, while also demonstrating an ability to improvise and read sheet music. Her father, Leopold, decided to educate his only daughter Maria Anna "Nannerl" as a source of income. In 1762 his father Leopold took Nannerl at the age of eleven and Wolfgang, aged six, to the courts of Munich and Vienna. In 1763, they undertook a long journey of three and a half years to the courts of Paris, London, The Hague and Zurich, behaving like child prodigies. Ironically, Mozart's father was unsure of Mozart's talents. Mozart showed interest and while his father taught his sister, he learned. His father saw that he was interested in learning and the field of music. He encountered the highly renowned orchestras and style of Mannheim, French music in Paris, as well as the gallant style of Johann Christian Bach and Johann Sebastian Bach's youngest son. The journeys were so long that they had to stop frequently; Wolfgang and other family members became so ill that they had to curtail their performance schedule. When he was 13, Wolfgang and his father left for Italy in December, leaving his mother and sister at home. Nannerl's professional musical career was over, she was of marriageable age, and because of this period she could not exercise her artistic talent in public. In Rome, Wol...... middle of paper ......ozart fell into serious financial difficulties. Mozart associated himself with European aristocrats and although he could live as one of them. Towards the end of 1785, Mozart met the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, a Venetian composer and poet with whom they collaborated on the opera The Marriage of Figaro. The Opera was successfully premiered in Vienna in 1786 and was warmly received in Prague. Later, in 1787, they created the opera Don Giovanni which was created because of its musical complexity. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died on December 5, 1791, at the age of 35. The cause of his death still remains uncertain due to the limitations of post-mortem diagnosis. Records indicate the cause was army fever due to a rash he had on his skin. However, the hypothesis was that Mozart died of rheumatic fever, an illness from which he suffered throughout his life..