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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Leopold Mozart, Thomas Baltzar, Alois Kottmann, Julia Fischer, Hans Sitt, Koh Gabriel Kameda, Gerhard Taschner, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Christian Cannabich, Leopold Damrosch, David Garrett, Marcus Tanneberger, Thomas Hengelbrock, Paul Klengel, Johann Paul von Westhoff, Adam Taubitz, Emil Bohnke, Karel Hali, Bernhard Molique, Emil Kreuz, Nicolas Koeckert, Johann Peter Salomon, Philipp Naegele, Christoph Poppen, Carl Venth, Adolf Busch, Tanja Becker-Bender, Veronika Eberle, Sophia Reuter, Anton Stamitz, Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, Alina Pogostkina, Walther Davisson, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Willy Burmester, Viviane Hagner, Christian Ferdinand Abel, Willy Hess, Henry Schradieck, Gottfried von der Goltz, Hugo Heermann, Clamor Heinrich Abel, Arabella Steinbacher, August Wilhelmj, Hermann Anton Gelinek, Oskar Rieding, Egon Sassmannshaus, Joseph Schubert, Christian Tetzlaff, Ernst Glaser, Sebastian Bodinus, Ludwig Abel, Dietrich Becker, Ulf Hoelscher, Reinhard Goebel, Emanuel Wirth, Julius Ruthardt, Franz Wohlfahrt. Excerpt: Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14, 1719 - May 28, 1787) was a German composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. Mozart is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer grundlichen Violinschule. He was born in Augsburg, son of Johann Georg Mozart (1679-1736), a bookbinder, and his second wife Anna Maria Sulzer (1696-1766). From an early age he sang as a choirboy. He attended a local Jesuit school, the St. Salvator Gymnasium, where he studied logic, science, theology, graduating magna cum laude in 1735. He then moved on to a more advanced school, the St. Salvator Lyceum. While a student in Augsburg, he appeared in student theatrical productions as an actor and singer, and became a skilled violinist and organist. He also developed an inter...
