Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756- 1791)
Symphony No.28 in C Major, K. 200
Symphony No.31 In D Major, K. 297 (Paris)
Symphony No.40 In G Minor, K. 550

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg in 1756, the son of a court musician, Leopold Mozart, whose important book on the study of the violin was published in the same year. Leopold Mozart was to remain for the greater part of his life in the service of the Archbishops of Salzburg, rising in 1763 to the position of deputy Kapellmeister, the summit of his career. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the second and youngest surviving child of his father's marriage, showed prodigious gifts as a child, and these abilities were carefully nurtured by his father, whose own interests were thenceforward sacrificed to his son's advancement in pursuit of what Leopold Mozart was to regard as a divinely appointed mission. In material terms his final achievement was a failure, but in musical terms a miraculous success