Mozart Interview Essay

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Interviewer: Today we will be interviewing a gentleman that has forged a name for him self in the realm of music. He has created every thing from sonatas, fugues, quartets, sonnets, and operas. He has also traveled all across Europe playing some of the most renowned places such as the Sistine Chapel. Ladies and gentleman I give you Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Mozart: Thank you, thank you it a pleasure to be hear.
Interviewer: So let’s start simple, and go all the way back to the beginning; just give us a little bit about your early life.
Mozart: Yes, I was born in Salzburg, a city in Austria, in the year 1756. My father is Leopold Mozart and my mother is Anna Maria. I was the youngest of seven children. From what I understand

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