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Wonder Child- Wolfgang Mozart

Have you heard about the Wonder Child The most talented child in the world who could play the piano at the age of three was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart was born in 1756 in Austria Being a musician Mozarts father taught Wolfgang and his sister Anna to play on the musical instruments Wolfgang was very talented and started to play piano at the age of three Once hearing his father and other musicians play a complex musical composition Wolfgang started to play the violin part exactly as he heard it Oh wow everyone exclaimed listening to the little boy Shocked and surprised everyone praised the little genius Mozarts father soon realized that Wolfgang knew everything already and teaching his son was no longer needed Mozart could write music notes before he could write words To write a musical composition was very easy for Mozart he could even write musical pieces during a game while he was waiting for his turn to play He wrote his first music for piano when he was five When he was six year old he was playing for kings queens and wealthy people and was earning money He wrote his first symphony at the age of eight and his first opera was composed when Mozart was eleven Amazed with Mozarts beautiful music many people did not believe that it was done by a little boy To test and believe people asked to lock little Mozart into a tower with only a pen paper and a bed In a week someone checked up on him and was amazed at the piles and piles of music With the greatest surprise people accepted that it was indeed Mozart who composed music at such a young age People started to call him a Wonder Child Mozart was a genius who began to write musical pieces as a child composed more than 600 compositions during his lifetime and died young at the age of 35.

Works Cited Broukal, Milada. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. What a Life. New York: Pearson Education. 2000. Print. Interesting Facts About Mozart. Comcast Net. 18 Oct. 2012. Web.