He was the son of Leopold Mozart, Kapellmeister to the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, and much the reason behind’s Wolfgang’s education. By the age of three he could play the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart piano, and he was composing by the time he was five. Mozart's elder sister Maria Anna was also a gifted keyboard player, and in 1762 their father took the two prodigies on a short performing tour, of the courts at Vienna and …showed first 75 words of 1725 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1725 total…lsegg, who wished to pass off the work as his own.) Mozart did not live to finish the Requiem. He became ill in autumn 1791 and died on December 5; his burial the next day was attended only by a gravedigger. Rumours that Mozart had been poisoned abounded in Vienna after his death, many suggesting that rival composer Antonio Salieri was responsible. Many now believe a heart weakened by bouts of rheumatic fever caused his death.