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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1756 - 1791

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has received more than 25,361,330 page views. His biography is available in 214 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 209 in 2019). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the 2nd most popular composer, the 2nd most popular biography from Austria and the most popular Austrian Composer.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is most famous for being a prolific composer of classical music.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ranks 2 out of 1,451. Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven. After him are Johann Sebastian Bach, Frédéric Chopin, Antonio Vivaldi, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, George Frideric Handel, Robert Schumann, and Antonín Dvořák.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ranks 1. After him are Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria, William Godwin, Maria Theresa of Savoy, Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, Aaron Burr, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Ernst Chladni, Jean-Baptiste Carrier, Louis Henri, Prince of Condé, and Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1791, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ranks 1. After him are Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Grigory Potemkin, John Wesley, Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, Jacob Frank, Étienne Maurice Falconet, Ignaz von Born, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, Joseph Gaertner, João de Loureiro, and Besiki.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ranks 2 out of 1,424. Before him are Adolf Hitler (1889). After him are Marie Antoinette (1755), Maria Theresa (1717), Joseph Haydn (1732), Franz Schubert (1797), Franz Liszt (1811), Gustav Klimt (1862), Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830), Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947), Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (1791), and Stefan Zweig (1881).

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Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ranks 1. After him are Joseph Haydn (1732), Franz Schubert (1797), Anton Bruckner (1824), Johann Strauss I (1804), Johann Strauss II (1825), Arnold Schoenberg (1874), Anton Webern (1883), Alban Berg (1885), Carl Czerny (1791), Alma Mahler (1879), and Josef Strauss (1827).

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