Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
composer · Salzburg · Vienna · 1756–1791
He toured Europe as a performer from the age of six and wrote more than 600 works before he died at thirty-five.
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November 8, 1777
I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I am no painter; I can neither by signs nor by pantomime express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer; but I can by tones, for I am a musician.Letter to his father, from Mannheim · in place of the original: the English translation by Lady Wallace (1865)
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