Meet Mozart | Composer Biography for Kids FREE Worksheet

[Music] meet wolfgang amadeus mozart mozart was born in salzburg austria the home of castles wienerschnitzel and mozart kugel a chocolate candy created in 1890 to honor wolfgang amadeus mozart wolfgang was no ordinary kid by the time he was four years old he was composing short pieces that his father wrote down for him by the time he was six he and his sister maria were touring europe with their father to play music for kings and queens mozart loved to compose music he composed music at the dinner table he composed music about a cat probably because he

liked acting like a cat he even composed music while his wife was having a baby because he was always composing the music he wrote would take eight days to play if you played one piece after the next without ever stopping one night a mysterious stranger knocked on the door of mozart's home mozart opened the door and found a man standing in the shadowy hall that he'd never seen before the stranger asked mozart to compose a requiem mass and offered to pay him the visit from the mysterious man terrified mozart so he agreed to write the

requiem mozart's health wasn't good when he accepted the commission and it got worse as he worked on the requiem he told his wife constance that he believed he was writing it for his own funeral mozart died without completing his requiem however he did give us over 600 compositions including his opera the magic flute his chamber ensemble aina klein music and his work for piano 12 variations on twinkle twinkle little star today we consider wolfgang amadeus mozart to be one of the greatest composers of all time you