Mozart's Birthplace
Cramped third-floor apartment above a merchant's shop where a musical prodigy was born in seventeen fifty-six.
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This guide to Mozart's Birthplace in Salzburg opens on the night of January twenty-seventh, seventeen fifty-six, when Wolfgang Mozart was born in these cramped third-floor rooms above a grocer's shop. It follows his father Leopold Mozart, a court violinist who published an influential violin textbook that same year while climbing the ranks of the prince-archbishop's orchestra, and traces the twenty-six years the family spent here after Leopold first noticed his small son picking out melodies. Picture the ordinary apartment behind such an unlikely beginning.
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