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There are many kinds of music- those that need a voice or voices to sing and those that are played with simply the instruments to accompany it . Whatever the music is , composers write it to tell a story . The greatest music of all is the one that is profoundly beautiful that no words or pictures can express them , whose thoughts only music can express . In the history of music , there are great composers who are able to express their feelings and ideas into melodies , resulting in

timeless music . Ludwig van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are two of them . Though both represented the Classical era (1750-1820 , Beethoven continued on until the Romantic period (1820-1900 . Beethoven and Mozart had different styles . theless , both were considered musical geniuses in their times

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Austria in 1756 (Wright , 1996 ,

br 160 . He was known as a wonder child ' for at eight years old , the young Mozart had already composed minuets , a sonata , and a symphony (Goode , 1967 ,

. B-21 . He was four years old when his father Leopold started giving him harpsichord lessons (p . B-21 . Together with his older sister Maria Anna , the young Wolfgang embarked on a musical career , performing around Europe (p . B-21 . For three years , they toured Munich , Brussels , Paris , London , Amsterdam and Geneva (p . 160 The German poet Goethe was said to describe Mozart as a human incarnation of a divine force of creation (p . 160 . As a child Mozart delivered a fugue while sitting on the knee of Johann Christian Bach (p . 160 . At eight years old , his first two symphonies were played (p . 160 . He was truly a gifted child and continued to do so until his teens

When Mozart was twelve , the family returned to Vienna (Wright , 1996 ,

br 160 . There , his first opera entitled Bastien and Bastienne was staged in the house of Dr . Franz Anton Mesmer , the noted inventor (p . 160 . By age 13 , his first violin sonatas were published in London (Goode , 1967 br

. B-21 . The following year , Mozart had already written and directed his own opera- Mithridates King of Pontus (p . B-21 . Because Mozart was exposed to a plethora of musical styles , from French Baroque , English choral to Italian vocal , his musicality had substance . He was hired as a violinist and composer by the Archbishop of Salzburg , Colloredo (p 161 . However , the archbishop was not impressed with the young prodigy often insulting and humiliating him . In this letters , Mozart , by then just 16 years old , refereed to the archbishop as the Archboobie (p 161 . When Mozart played for kings and royals , he was lauded but toiling for the archbishop proved to be a humbling experience for the music wizard . Mozart was used to being an international celebrity that when he toiled for the archbishop , it seemed that his fame had no effect . He felt like he was treated as a servant (Kamien , 1990 ,

. 175 . He was also dependent on his father that...