Great dynasties of the world: The Mozarts

Pushy father, rebellious sonIn 1756, Leopold Mozart, a violin teacher from Salzburg, and his wife, Anna Maria Pertl, had a son, their seventh child, whom they named Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus. The Mozarts lived in a small flat with ceilings so low that the rooms, according to one biographer, resembled "the filling in a sandwich". Squeezed happily together, the Mozarts also celebrated in 1756 the publication of Leopold's Treatise on the Fundamentals of Violin Playing. It seemed a...

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