![]() ![]() He was born in the archbishopric of Salzburg in 1756, and he died in the imperial capital of Vienna in 1791. Nonetheless, he was generally well liked. “As touchy as gunpowder,” one friend called him. In several pictures, his left eye droops a little, perhaps from fatigue. In one, he wears a hard, distant look in another, his face glows with sadness. Portraits suggest a man aware of his separation from the world. But he often gave the impression of being not entirely present, as if his mind were caught up in an invisible event. When he was in a convivial mood, his gaze was said to be warm, even seductive. Wolfgang Amadè Mozart, as he usually spelled his name, was a small man with a plain, pockmarked face, whose most striking feature was a pair of intense blue-gray eyes. Scholars now see Mozart not as a naïve prodigy or a suffering outcast but as a hardworking, ambitious musician. ![]()
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