He spent the last 10 years of his life in Vienna, moving house frequently according to his economic circumstances. After such an itinerant life at many of the most important royal courts and musical cities in Europe, it is little wonder that after reaching adulthood Mozart could not settle at Salzburg, which he considered to be a provincial backwater. (It seems likely that his education also included mathematics, languages, literature and religious training.) The child prodigy was taken on exhausting concert tours all over Europe and his skill as a composer benefited enormously from his experiences in Italy, Germany, France and England. Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus (or Gottlieb) Mozart was taught music by his father Leopold, a respected theorist, composer and violinist at the Salzburg court. There sometimes seem almost as many Mozarts as the staggering number of compositions that he left us. If he seems to loom larger than life, it is partly because each generation reinvents this composer for itself. Our perception of Mozart has been moulded by legends. In Mozart's case, we have the glorious truths of his music but the true facts of his life have often been clouded by the mists of time and by tall tales.
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