![]() In the fourth year of his age his father, for a game as it were, began to teach him a few minuets and pieces at the clavier. Years later, after his death, she reminisced:He often spent much time at the clavier, picking out thirds, which he was always striking, and his pleasure showed that it sounded good. When Nannerl was seven she began keyboard lessons with her father, and her three-year-old brother would look on, evidently fascinated. In the year of Mozart's birth, his father published a violin textbook, Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule, which achieved some success. ![]() His father Leopold (1719–1787) was deputy Kapellmeister to the court orchestra of the Archbishop of Salzburg, and a minor composer. He generally called himself "Wolfgang Amadè Mozart" as an adult, but there were many variants. The baptismal record gives his name in Latinized form as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. ![]() Wolfgang was baptized the day after his birth at St. His only sibling to survive past birth was Maria Anna (1751–1829), called "Nannerl". Then it was part of the Holy Roman Empire. Amadeus Mozart was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl Mozart at 9 Getreidegasse in Salzburg, capital of the sovereign Archbishopric of Salzburg, in what is now Austria. ![]()
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