Mozart Biography

Complete the biography with the past forms of the verbs in parentheses:

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����� Woffgang Amadeus Mozart (1.be) � born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria. Mozart (2. be)

�a musical prodigy. He (3. begin) �playing the piano when he (4. be) �only three years old.

At five, he (5. write) �his own music.

Mozart (6. play) �for the rich and for royaltry. As a teenager, he (7. write) �and completed his

first opera. He (8. continue) �to write great songs as an adult, but he (9. not/become)

famous. Mozart (10. get married) �when he (11. be) �26 years old and he (12.

have) �two sons. He (13. not/make) �much money from his compositions. Mozart (14. get)

�sick and (15. die) �on December 5, 1791, in Vienna, Austria. Mozart (16. give) �one of his

students instructions on��how to complete his last work, the Requiem Mass.

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