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1. Mozart is renowned throughout the world as one of the foremost composers of all time, but what do you know about him? In which Austrian city was he born?
2. He was the seventh, but only second surviving, son of Leopold Mozart and his wife Anna Maria. His father was a musician- what instrument was it that his father excelled in?
3. Mozart was christened Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. What name did he use until 1769 when he began to sign himself Amadeo (Italian for the Latin Amadeus)?
4. He initially trained as a harpsichord player with his talented sister and played before King George III. He later worked as Konzertmeister with which famous composer's brother?
5. Mozart was a child prodigy and wrote his first opera at the age of 11. At what age did he write his first minuet?
6. On the death of Christoph Gluck, Mozart was promoted to 'Composer of the Imperial Chamber' to Emperor Joseph II in Vienna. He was also awarded the Order of the Golden Spur by which Pope?
7. One of his Mozart's operas was 'Die Zauberflote'. What does this translate to in English?
8. Mozart fell in love, initially, with the soprano Aloysia Weber; rebuffed, he then married, in 1782, what relation of Aloysia's?
9. Mozart played many instruments and also sang but of these, which instrument did he not play?
10. Legend has it that Mozart was poisoned, and he himself believed this; Mozart's rival, Salieri, was suspected. But his death certificate declared he had died of a high miliary fever...which of these most closely fits the bill and is the most accepted manner of his death by scholars?
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