Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

Fantasia in C Minor, K. 475
Sonata in C Minor, K. 457
Sonata in A Major, K. 331 (3001)
Ah, vous dirai-je, maman K. 265 (300e)
(Twelve variations on a French song)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756, the youngest child and only surviving son of Leopold Mozart. distinguished as the author of a book on violin-playing, published in the year of his son's birth, and a member of the music establishment of the ruling Archbishop of Salzburg. Leopold Mozart soon realised that his son had exceptional gifts and saw it as his duty to do everything to foster these, sacrificing his own career as a composer to do so. He was appointed Vice Kapellmeister in Salzburg, a position he retained until his death in 1787.

As a boy Mozart travelled widely, performing as a keyboard-player, with his eider sister Nannerl, before kings and queens, the nobility and the merely curious throughout Europ