

He received excellent musical instruction from Antonio Salieri and Johann Nepomuk Hummel, and studied composition with Johann Georg Albrechtsberger and Sigismund von Neukomm. Although he was baptized Franz Xaver Mozart, he was always called Wolfgang by his family. He knew Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann who both held him in high esteem.įranz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart was born in Vienna, four months and ten days before his father's death. He was a composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher of the late classical period whose musical style was of an early Romanticism, heavily influenced by his father's mature style.

