Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the most famous composers. When he was only three years old, he played the harpsichord and the violin. At the age of four he was making up his own music. He was so young that his father had to help him write it down.

When he was six years old, Mozart and his older sister Nannerl were giving concerts to kings and queens and emperors. And Mozart wrote new music all the time, even when he was sitting in bumpy coaches travelling through Europe.

He didn't have a long life. But he wrote a lot of music and we hear it today in concerts and on recordings. He wrote symphonies for an orchestra to play. He wrote piano concertos for an orchestra and a solo piano, and he would play the piano part himself!

And he wrote the music of many operas – these are like plays with singing – as well as hundreds of other pieces.

People said that he composed and played music in the way that most of us breathe:

it was completely natural for him.

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Music Tracks and Information:

TR 1 ( 00:04:17 ) Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492: Overture

Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Performer: Hungarian State Opera Orchestra; Morandi, Pier Giorgio

TR 2 ( 00:05:37 ) Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550: I. Allegro molto

Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Performer: Capella Istropolitana; Wordsworth, Barry

TR 3 ( 00:03:45 ) Serenade No. 13 in G Major, K. 525, "Eine kleine Nachtmusik": IV. Rondo: Allegro

Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Performer: Swedish Chamber Orchestra; Sundkvist, Petter

TR 4 ( 00:05:37 ) Concerto for Flute and Harp in C Major, K. 299: II. Andantino (excerpt)

Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Performer: Capella Istropolitana; Edlinger, Richard; Válek, Jiří; Mullerová, Hana

TR 5 ( 00:03:22 ) Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K. 331: III. Rondo alla turca: Allegretto

Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Performer: Jandó, Jenő

TR 6 ( 00:03:03 ) Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488: III. Allegro assai (excerpt)

Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Performer: Concentus Hungaricus; Antál, Mátyás; Jandó, Jenő

TR 7 ( 00:06:43 ) Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat Major, K. 364: III. Presto

Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Performer: Capella Istropolitana; Gunzenhauser, Stephen; Nishizaki, Takako; Kyselák, Ladislav

TR 8 ( 00:05:59 ) Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581: II. Larghetto

Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Performer: Danubius Quartet; Balogh, József

TR 9 ( 00:02:55 ) Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620, Act I: Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja

Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Performer: Budapest Failoni Chamber Orchestra; Halász, Michael; Tichy, Georg

TR 10 ( 00:06:45 ) Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467, "Elvira Madigan": II. Andante

Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Performer: Concentus Hungaricus; Ligeti, András; Jandó, Jenő

TR 11 ( 00:02:58 ) Divertimento in D Major, K. 136, "Salzburg Symphony No. 1": I. Allegro

Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Performer: Éder Quartet

TR 12 ( 00:04:04 ) Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 545: I. Allegro

Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Performer: Jandó, Jenő

TR 13 ( 00:06:43 ) Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216: III.