"Your countenance ... was so grave that many intelligent persons, seeing your talent so early developed and your face always serious and thoughtful, were concerned for the length of your life."
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Leopold Mozart, in a letter to his son
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756 – 1791
Komponist der Wiener Klassik
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