The youngest child and only surviving son of Leopold Mozart, Wolfgang Mozart was born in Salzburg in 1756, the year of publication of his father's influential treatise on violin-playing. He showed early precocity both as a keyboard-player and violinist, and soon turned his hand to composition. His family was a dynasty of musicians.
"Eine kleine Nachmusik" (running time 5:52)
Courtesy goes to Capella Istropolitana
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The best known Serenade of all is "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" (A Little Night-Music), a charming piece of which four of the five original movements survive. It is scored for solo strings and was written in the summer of 1787, the year of the opera Don Giovanni and of the death of the composer's father.
