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The word genius gets tossed around a lot. Some people think that it even gets tossed around a little bit too much. So often people are referred to as a musical genius when that may not be the case at all because people are always trying to discover the next great thing. The word genius definitely applied to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He was a child prodigy and a prolific composer throughout his musical career.

Mozart was born in the late 1756 in what in Austria. He was a musical prodigy almost from the beginning. He started playing the clavier, which is very similar to the pianos of today, at the age of 3 and was composing songs by the age of 5 which his father wrote down for him. It has been that he was already a very talented clavier player by this age as well and could many pieces without making mistakes and still have a lot of emotion and musicality for a musician that was so young.

The rest is history. Mozart began touring and performing at a very young age for nobles around the area. He also went on to compose over 600 different musical works until his untimely death at the age of 35.