Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as found on the World Wide Web Of all the great composers throughout the years, possibly the most famous ever would be Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Few composers ever have led such a remarkable life of left such a remarkable lasting legacy of music in such a short span of life. Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He was the second survivor of six born to an accomplished musician named Leopold (The …showed first 75 words of 487 total…

…showed last 75 words of 487 total…on. Only later in the century would his genius be admired by such composers as Johames Brahms and Arnold Schoenberg. Without Mozart's innovation and his ideas of what was possible in particular types of music most music written in the next fifty years or would have been probably written much differently there can be few composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that have not felt drawn to some aspect of Mozart's work (Mozart's Legacy).