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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, nome di battesimo: Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (Salisburgo, 27 gennaio 1756 - Vienna, 5 dicembre 1791), è stato un compositore a cui è universalmente riconosciuta la creazione di opere musicali di incommensurabile valore artistico. Viene annoverato tra i geni della musica. Dotato di raro talento, manifestatosi precocemente, morì a trentacinque anni di età lasciando pagine indimenticabili di musica sinfonica, da camera, musica sacra e operistica. I quattro nomi che furono dati al bambino si giustificano così: Johannes Chrysostomus, perché il 27 gennaio, secondo il calendario cattolico, era intitolato a San Giovanni Crisostomo, patriarca di Costantinopoli e...

Wolfgang Windgassen (June 26, 1914 – September 8, 1974) was a tenor internationally known for his performances in Richard Wagner operas. Born in Annemasse, France, he was the son (and pupil) of a well known German Heldentenor, Fritz Windgassen (who was also the teacher of Gottlob Frick). His mother was the German coloratura soprano Vali von der Osten, sister of the much more famous soprano Eva von der Osten, who created the part of Octavian in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier. Both Windgassen's parents were longtime mainstays of the Staatsoper Stuttgart. Wolfgang made his début at Pforzheim as Pinkerton in Madama...

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was a composer of operas, songs, orchestral works, and film scores. Korngold was born on 29th May 1897 in a Jewish home in Brünn (Brno), Austria–Hungary, now the Czech Republic. He was the second son of the eminent music critic Julius Korngold. A child prodigy, Erich played his cantata Gold to Gustav Mahler in 1906; Mahler called him a "musical genius", and recommended study with the composer Alexander von Zemlinsky. At the age of eleven he composed his ballet Der Schneemann (The Snowman), which caused a sensation when performed at the Vienna Court Opera in 1910,...