I have never known anything about Mozart other than he started composing music at the age of nine. Mozart started his music career because his father was a professional musician. His father taught Mozart clavier pieces at the age of four. Wolfgang also had the ability to teach himself violin. The young master musician strained hard to advance beyond what his youth limited him to. So the entire family toured around Germany, France, and England. They performed for all sorts of people, and Mozart was exposed to new musicians and composers.
When Mozart was seventeen years old, he became a court musician for the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. It was a great opportunity – he was being paid to compose in nearly every possible musical genre, letting him flourish as a composer. But Mozart gradually grew bored and frustrated with the life and society in Salzburg, as well as the lack of opportunities for getting operas performed. He went to Paris to find new opportunities. Sadly, the Parisian musical world didn’t seem to take much notice of him. He ended up back in Salzburg. Later, his father had gotten him a position as a court organist.
After experiencing what it felt like to work together, Mozart decided to go to Vienna to work alone. Over the years, his fame spread wider and wider, and he became known as the best keyboardist in Vienna. He composed bunches of musical concertos, earn great deals of money from them.
Mozart was finding it hard to survive because Austria was at war. Mozart’s main source of income, the nobility, was going through a money drought. Mozart performed less and less in public; his fame was vanishing. He started borrowing money heavily from friends. At the end of the next year he had to take a position as chamber musician for the Emperor to earn enough.
He continually struggled for the next few years, taking long trips to other European cities to try and spark his fame again and make some cash. But it never seemed to work out for him. In 1790 things began to look hopeful. Mozart started working furiously, turning out new piece after new piece. His financial situation improved, and his music from this era is some of his most beloved. Then, as Mozart started a new piece, he fell ill. His wife helped nurse him as his illness grew worse and worse. At the age of 35, Mozart passed away to an unknown cause. Mozart left the world to be grateful for such treasured art.