Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, the son of Leopold Mozart, a court violinist and teacher. He was playing the keyboard at three and composing at five. His father took him and his talented older sister, Nannerl, on long tours, where they performed for the empress in Vienna, the king of France and the royal family in London. As a teenager Mozart toured Italy and wrote his first operas. He served the archbishop of Salzburg but chafed under him, and in 1781 he left to work on his own in Vienna, the first major composer to try to live without a permanent patron. There he married Constanze Weber, taught, gave concerts, and wrote some of the greatest music of the age, including the operas The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute, many piano concertos and his last symphonies. He was often short of money. He died in Vienna in December 1791, at thirty-five, before finishing his Requiem. He wrote more than six hundred works.

Faith: Raised a Catholic and a practicing Catholic throughout his life. Source: Wikipedia