We've gone plum loco over this great composer during the week of Mozart Madness! How much do you know about "the Eternal Child"? Click the "?" to see if you are right on this true/false quiz.
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He was baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. |
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Mozart's sister was nearly five years younger than he. |
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Within a span of two years, the child prodigy had performed for the Austrian Emperor in Vienna and King George III in London. |
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He wrote out the entire score of "Miserere" by Allegri after only two hearings - and thereby broke one of the rules of the Vatican. |
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While accompanying him on one of his tours, Mozart's mother died in Seville, Spain. |
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The first opera he produced after moving to Vienna was "Abduction from the Seraglio". |
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Although his opera "Magic Flute" is rife with Masonic symbolism, Mozart himself was not a member, having been refused on the grounds that he couldn't pay the entrance fee. |
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The Requiem was the only unfinished commission he had at his death. |
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The librettist for "Marriage of Figaro", Lorenzo da Ponte, would eventually become a professor of Italian at Columbia University and would write an autobiography in which Mozart was barely mentioned. |
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The object of Mozart's ridicule in his work "A Musical Joke" was rival composer Salieri. |
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