Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“神童”莫扎特

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At seventeen, he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, operas, and portions of the Requiem , which was largely unfinished at the time of his death. The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized. He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons.
沃尔夫冈·阿玛多伊斯·莫扎特(1756—1791)，受洗名为约翰内斯·克里索斯托姆斯·沃尔夫冈·西奥菲勒斯·莫扎特，是古典主义音乐时期一名影响深远的作曲家，创作了众多音乐作品。莫扎特很小就表现出了惊人的音乐能力。他能熟练演奏键盘乐器和小提琴，从五岁起开始作曲，并为欧洲皇室演奏。17岁的时候，莫扎特成为萨尔茨堡的宫廷乐师，但他并不满足，游走于西方以期找到更好的工作，并一直进行大量创作。1781年莫扎特造访维也纳，被萨尔茨堡解雇。于是他选择留在维也纳，在那里他声名鹊起，但收入颇微。莫扎特在维也纳的晚年时期，创作了很多最著名的交响乐、协奏曲、歌剧和部分《安魂曲》(在莫扎特去世时仍有大部分未完成)。关于莫扎特的英年早逝有很多传说。他留下了妻子康斯坦丝和两个儿子。

He composed over six hundred works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence on subsequent Western art music is profound; Beethoven composed his own early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote that “posterity will not see such a talent again in a hundred years.”
莫扎特创作了超过600部作品，很多被视作交响乐、协奏曲、室内乐、歌剧和合唱曲的巅峰之作。他是最受欢迎的古典主义作曲家之一，一直受到人们的爱戴。莫扎特对后来的西方音乐艺术产生了深远影响。贝多芬早期的作品能看到莫扎特的影子。约瑟夫·海顿亦写道：“未来100年内都不会再出现这样一位天才。”