Original Text:
"Hier in diesem Hause wohnte im Jahre 1769 am 14. Dezember Herr Leopold Mozart hochfürstl. Salzburgischer Kapellmeister, mit seinem 13 jährigen Sohne Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart und gab Konzerte beim Grafen Künigl."
In the hotel "White Cross" there was the childhood home of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The family home is located in Herzog-Friedrich-Strasse 31, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart stayed at the "Weisses Kreuz" Hotel in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. In 1769 Leopold Mozart decides, that his genius son needs to get to know the Italian world of music, where leading musicians came from and were educated in. Along Innsbruck, Verona, Mantua, Milano, Bologna, Florence and Rome their path leads up to Naples. On Dec. 15, 1769, the conductor of the orchestra of the Prince-Bishop in Salzburg, Leopold Mozart, arrived to "Weisses Kreuz" in Innsbruck with his 13-year-old son, Wolfgang Amadeus. "Weisses Kreuz" Hotel is located near to the famous "Goldenes Dachl". At that time, the owner of the hotel was Jacob Phillip Pichler, who was also Mayor of Innsbruck.
Leopold Mozart wrote a letter to his wife from which the following quotation is taken:
"We are well, thank God,
we are lodging at the Weisses Kreuz.".
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About Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg on 27 January 1756 under the baptism of John Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Teophilus Mozart. Mozart was one of the most prolific and influential composers of classical music. He composed over 600 works including many famous symphonies, concerts, chamber plays, piano pieces, operas and chormusik. He is one of the most popular composers of classical music.
Mozart showed amazing musical abilities even in his earliest childhood. Already at the age of five he was able to deal with piano and violin, composing and playing in front of European royal houses. At the age of 17, he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg. The restless Mozart, however, was in search of a better position. When he visited Vienna in 1781, he was released from his Salzburg office. He decided to stay in the capital, where fame but little financial security awaited him. During his last years in life, he composed many of his most famous symphonies, concerts and operas, as well as parts of the Requiem, which at the time of his death was still largely unfinished. The circumstances of his early death developed into a myth. Mozart left his wife Constanze and two sons at his death.
Mozart learned greedily from others and developed a brilliance, maturity and style that included both the light and graceful as well as the dark and passionate. His influence on subsequent generations was extensive.
Thus Beethoven wrote his own early compositions in the "shadow" of Mozart. Joseph Haydn wrote that posterity will not see such in talent again in 100 years.
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