1756年1月27日，沃爾夫岡-阿馬德烏斯-莫紮特出生於奧地利的薩爾斯堡壹個宮廷樂師之家。他很小就顯露出極高的音樂天賦，在父親的教導下學習音樂。從1762年起，在父親的帶領下，6歲的莫紮特和10歲的姐姐安娜開始了漫遊整個歐洲大陸的旅行演出。他們到過慕尼黑、法蘭克福、波恩、維也納、巴黎、倫敦、米蘭、波隆那、佛羅倫薩、那不勒斯、羅馬、阿姆斯特丹等等許多地方，所到之處無不引起巨大的轟動！在奧地利國都維也納，他們被皇帝請進王宮進行表演。
1772年，16歲的莫紮特終於結束了長達10年之久的漫遊生活，回到自己的家鄉薩爾斯堡，在大主教的宮廷樂隊裏擔任首席樂師。由於不滿主教對他的嚴厲管束，這段不穩定的雇傭關系終於在1781年結束，他毅然決定獨立自主，前往維也納定居，走上艱難的自由音樂家道路。
莫紮特寫作之輕松與神速使他的同時代人和後輩都把他看作是無師自通、不學而成的天才，縱觀他的壹生，除了孩提時期受到父親的嚴格教誨外，的確從未得到過正式的教師指導。天才是不容否認的，但人們往往因此而忽略了天才也離不開刻苦與勤奮。莫紮特曾說：“人們以為我的藝術得來全不費功夫。實際上，沒有人會像我壹樣花這麽多時間和思考來從事作曲；沒有壹位名家的作品我不是辛勤地研究了許多次。”
1791年莫紮特貧病交加在維也納逝世，享年僅35歲。
莫紮特的主要代表作有：歌劇22部；以《費加羅的婚禮》(The Marriage of Figaro)、《唐璜》、《魔笛》最為著名；交響曲41部，以第三十九、四十、四十壹交響曲最為著名；鋼琴協奏曲27部，以第二十、二十壹、二十三、二十四、二十六、二十七鋼琴協奏曲最為著名；小提琴協奏曲6部，以第四、第五小提琴協奏曲最為著名；此外，他還寫了大量各種體裁的器樂與聲樂作品。
Austrian composer Mozart is to classical music composers were the most typical, with works by Haydn, Beethoven and Vienna as the three great composers of classical music camp.
January 27, 1756, Wolfgang - Amadeus - Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria a home court musicians. He has shown very little on the high musical talent in his father's music under the guidance of learning. From 1762 onwards, under the leadership of his father, 6-year-old Mozart and 10-year-old sister, Anna began roaming the entire European continent travel to perform. They have gone to Munich, Frankfurt, Bonn, Vienna, Paris, London, Milan, Bologna, Florence, Naples, Rome, Amsterdam and so many places, he went all caused great sensation! Capital Vienna, Austria, they were Emperor Palace invited to perform.
In 1772, 16-year-old Mozart's finally come to an end a 10-year life of roaming and returned to his hometown Salzburg, in the court of the Archbishop of the band, served as chief musician. Because of dissatisfaction with the bishops of his strict control, this period of instability in the employment relationship was finally the end of 1781, he took an independent decision to settle in Vienna and embarked on the difficult road of freedom of musicians.
Mozart's writing easy and quick to make his contemporaries and younger, he regarded as a self-taught, not science from the days, when we look at his life, apart from the period of childhood by his father's strict teachings, Has never really been an official guide for teachers. Genius is undeniable, but people tend to neglect the genius can not be separated from hard and diligently. Mozart once said: "People thought I was the art and do not have tasks are more demanding. In fact, no one would like me to spend so much time thinking and to engage in music; none of the works of famous I am not a hard look at the Many times. "
Cross poor in 1791 in Vienna, Mozart's death at the age of only 35 years old.
Mozart's main representative: 22 operas; "The Marriage of Figaro" (The Marriage of Figaro), "Don Juan" and "The Magic Flute" the most well-known; Symphony No. 41 to 39th , 40, the most well-known Symphony No. 41; Piano Concerto No. 27 to 20th, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27 of the most well-known Piano Concerto; Violin Concerto 6 , In the fourth, fifth most famous Violin Concerto; In addition, he wrote a large number of various genres of vocal and instrumental works.