Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The evening ended in triumph: the chronicles of the time describe the virtuosity of the child, who besides presenting some of his compositions, improvised several pieces that had never been heard before, and played a long fugue that was a variation of of a theme he was shown only once. The program of the evening reads: "the skilled young man Mr Amadeo Motzzart". He was to perform fourteen pieces and two unspecified symphonies, one at the beginning and one at the end of the evening. The sculpture by the Mantuan artist Andrea Jori, placed in the entrance hall, celebrates the event, which was actually the inauguration of the theater. As fate would have it, the protagonist of the memorable day was a young boy who would soon become the greatest genius in the history of music. Born in Salzburg in 1756, during his short life (in fact he died in Vienna in 1791) Mozart wrote an impressive number of pieces; his compositions are listed in a catalogue that goes from the work K1 to K626, the unfinished Requiem.