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◾Wolfgang and Constanze were already wed on August 4, 1782. Over the next nine years of their marriage, Constanze would give birth to six children. As was frequent in that period, only two of those children survived infancy, both sons
◾He would produce three or four new concertos in a season.
◾Mozart and his family a degree of wealth they had not until then experienced.

“The passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.”—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

◾Music was an integral part of the Mozart family life.
◾Wolfgang was the youngest of seven children, but only he and one sister made it past infancy.
◾By the age of four, he was composing simple pieces which his father would record.
◾ Wolfgang wrote his first opera, Mitridate, re di Ponto. He was 14 years old.
◾He wrote several violin concertos

◾“All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.” —Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart