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Mozart biography6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Inevitably, the financial assistance from Augsburg dried up and in the late 1730s, Leopold broke off his studies and entered the service of Count Johann Baptist Thurn-Valsassina und Taxis as a valet and musician.įor the next two decades Leopold's career resembled that of numerous professional musicians of the period. Leopold, however, had no intention of becoming a priest and once in Salzburg, to study at the University, abandoned his theological studies in favour of logic and jurisprudence. ![]() While he is best remembered today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang, Leopold Mozart was a prolific composer and in his own lifetime enjoyed a reputation as a man of intellect and discernment in his own lifetime.īorn in Augsburg to a respectable family of tradesmen, Leopold sang in the choir of the Church of the Holy Cross as a child and was singled out by the clerics early on for a career in the Church, a sequence of events fairly commonplace for a talented youth in the Eighteenth Century. ![]()
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