MOZART | At a glance

Mozart was born as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Gottlieb Mozart and christened as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. The Latin equivalent of Theophilus was Amadeus, and that's how he eventually signed his name.
The epitome of a child prodigy, he started playing the keyboard at 3. By his fifth birthday, he was already composing minuets. Between then and Dec. 5, 1791, when he died of rheumatic fever a few minutes before 1 a.m., he wrote 626 works.
Mozart was buried in a pauper's grave at Vienna's St. Marx Cemetery, though researcher Otto Biba says he has new evidence suggesting the composer in his heyday earned today's equivalent of $45,000 a year.
The spot where experts believe he was laid to rest is adorned by a simple column and a sorrowful angel.