Despite what you might have heard (or seen on the big screen), famed composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart probably wasn’t poisoned by Antonio Salieri—but he did spend time with a young Marie Antoinette ...
Mozart composed his first opera, Apollo et Hyacinthus when he was only 11. A year later the Emperor Joseph II commissioned him to write La finta semplice. In August 1782 he married Constanze Weber.
Both children set off on their first tour with their father ... occurred a few weeks before his 36th birthday. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart collectors' edition of Gramophone, 99 years in the making.