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from the next decade - and it came at a very fast rate - was only sporadically popular, and he eventually fell back on his teaching jobs and on the charity of friends to make ends meet. In 1788 he stopped performing in public, preferring to compose. But fortune never turned, and when he died in 1791 at the age of thirty-five, he was buried in a pauper's grave.To say that Mozart was a composer of unsurpassed genius is scarcely scratching the surface of this man's remarkable gifts. He wrote music, complete and perfect, down to the last accent and inflection - as fast as he could think, and this astonishing rate of production continues to stupefy scholars today. In his short life, he composed over 600 works, including 21 stage and opera works, 15 Masses, over 50 symphonies, 25 piano concertos, 12 violin concertos, 27 concert arias, 17 piano sonatas, 26 string quartets...the list is endless. And what makes these numbers doubly unfathomable is the peerless craft with which each piece of music was created. Mozart was a master of counterpoint, fugue, and the other traditional compositional devices of his day; more than this, he was perhaps the greatest melody writer the world has ever known. His operas range from comic baubles to tragic masterpieces. His Requiem, composed not long before his own death, stands with Bach's St. Matthew Passion as the supreme example of vocal music. In recent years, Mozart's fame has reached new heights on the popularity of the film Amadeus. What the recent Mozart uproar has created that is good, is increased awareness of his music, which must be counted among the absolute wonders of the world. ...

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