The Genius Of Mozart
1787 AD
1787 1787
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VIENNA, AUSTRIA
	How did he do it?  During his short lifetime Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote more than 600 musical compositions -- a huge number -- and many of excellent quality.  And he wrote many types of music, from symphonies to chamber music, and for almost every instrument from the piano to the offbeat "glass harmonica" invented by Benjamin Franklin.
	Mozart sometimes worked unceasingly when an idea hit him, not stopping until he was finished.  He would even write during meals and while socializing with friends.
	On other occasions he was lazy and delayed until he was motivated by another type of inspiration -- a deadline.  For example, he didn't write the overture to his 1787 masterpiece opera, "Don Giovanni," until the night before its opening.
	 Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, in 1756. By age five he was improvising minuets and was soon playing before Europe's royal courts. As an adult he settled in Vienna, where he produced some of his most remarkable pieces.
	Though he was a genius with music, he was anything but a genius with money, and when he died at age 35 he was buried in a paupers' grave.
