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The Music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
 | | However, Mozart’s fame is based on two different frames of reference: firstly, being the most famous child prodigy in music history (as both a performer and a composer) and secondly, his unquestioned brilliance as an adult composer of Classical symphonies, operas, chamber music, sonatas, church music, and concerti for various instruments. |
 | | Mozart, however, in poor health and greatly depressed, was shaken by the experience and obsessed by the idea that this was to be his own Mass for the Dead. |
 | | Mozart was a master of counterpoint, fugue, and the other traditional compositional devices of his day; more than this, he was perhaps one of the greatest melody writers the world has ever known. |
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