sister. Not ending poverty and illness harassed the family until Mozarts death in 1791. Mozart had had an unsuccessful career and died young but he ranks as one of the geniuses of Western civilization. His large output which is more than 600 works, shows that even as a child he had had a thorough command of the technical resources of musical composition as well as an original imagination. His works include symphonies, divertimentos, sonatas, chamber music for a number of instrumental combinations, and concertos; his vocal works consist mainly of church music and operas. Mozart's creative method was extraordinary, for his manuscripts show that, although he made an occasional preliminary sketch of a difficult passage, he almost invariably thought out a complete work before committing it to paper....
