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Creating Music

In his own day, Bach was best known as an organ player. He left a timeless legacy to the world of music, however.

until he died in 1750. His music is still performed and listened to today, and he is considered to be one of the greatest masters of harmony. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart is another German musician; he was born in 1756, shortly after Bach died. Mozart was a musical genius. By the time he was four years old, he could learn a piece of music in half an hour. At five, he was play- ing the clavier (a kind of early piano) with amazing skill, and at six, he began composing his own music; he wrote his first symphonies at the age of eight. Mozart traveled all over Europe with his father, who was