For the most part, Mozart and Constanze had a happy marriage. Often they struggled to make ends meet. There are stories about how the couple danced in their unheated house to keep warm and how they used their wooden furniture as firewood. When Mozart

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Papa Leopold Mozart was very strict. He was a composer and violinist in Salzburg in Austria. When he was finished working for the day, Leopold came home and gave his daughter and son music lessons. Over and over they played what he taught them. They

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More than 200 years ago, there was a little boy who learned to play a musical instrument at the age of three. It was called a clavier, which was an old-fashioned stringed instrument that also had a keyboard. By the time he was five, he was composing

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Nine months after the Mozart family returned to Salzburg, Leopold and Wolfie were off again, back to Vienna. Wolfie was growing up. His father saw that he and Nannerl could no longer make a living as child geniuses. Nannerl was a good musician, but s

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Back in Salzburg, Wolfie became the court organist and concertmaster. He wrote music, at his usual fast pace. But he was bored. Then, in 1780, he was asked to compose an Italian opera for the court in Munich, Germany. Now this was exciting! Mozart lo

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In 1763, when Wolfie was seven years old, the Mozart family left Salzburg. Setting out on a big sailboat, they glided down the Danube River. They went to the German cities of Stuttgart, Mannheim, Mainz, and Frankfurt. They also traveled by coach and

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