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Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of 13 in Verona, 1770; School of Verona, attributed to Giambettino Cignaroli (Salo, Verona 1706-1770). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 - December 5, 1791) was an Austrian composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. Mozart was a child prodigy competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of Mozart's death. The circumstances of his early death, at the age of 35, have been much mythologized.