From an early age Mozart could sit in a church, listen to the music and singing, and hours later write down all the notes from memory. He also loved mathematics and chalked numbers all over the walls and furniture of his rooms. There was hardly any time for studying, although it did mean he learned 15 languages. Mozart's first concert tour was at the age of six, and together with his father and sister he traveled and performed throughout his childhood, covering Europe in a coach and horses or by boat. One of Mozart's 'party tricks' was playing the harpsichord, and later the piano, with the keys covered by a cloth. He could play the harpsichord by the age of three, wrote music at five, which was before he was able to write words, and could pick up musical instruments, such as a violin, then play them without having had any help. There is a legend that at two years of age he identified a pig's squeal as a 'G sharp'. Wolfgang means 'Wolf's Path', and his friends and family called him Wolfgang or Wolferl, while in later years he signed himself as 'Wolfgang Amade'. Then part of the Holy Roman Empire and now Austria.įour of his names mean 'Beloved of God': Theophillus – Greek, Amadeus – Latin, Gottlieb - German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) and Sigismundus – Old German. Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophillus Amadeus Gottlieb Sigismundus Mozart was born on Januin Salzburg.

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