Q 01/05

In which city was Mozart born?

A) Salzburg

B) Vienna

C) Prague

D) Munich

Answer · why

A) Salzburg

It was then the capital of an ecclesiastical principality within the Holy Roman Empire.

Q 02/05

In what year was Mozart born?

A) 1756

B) 1770

C) 1785

D) 1791

Answer · why

A) 1756

He was baptised the next day at St Rupert's Cathedral as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus.

Q 03/05

How old was Mozart when he died in December 1791?

A) 29

B) 32

C) 35

D) 41

Answer · why

C) 35

The Requiem was still largely unfinished on his desk.

Q 04/05

Roughly how many works did Mozart complete in his short life?

A) About 200

B) More than 800

C) About 450

D) More than 1,500

Answer · why

B) More than 800

They span nearly every genre of the age: symphonies, concertos, operas, chamber and choral music.

Q 05/05

The name Amadeus is the Latin form of the Greek baptismal name Theophilus, meaning what?

A) Gift of God

B) Wolf of God

C) Golden mouth

D) Loved by God

Answer · why

D) Loved by God

Mozart himself preferred to sign as "Wolfgang Amadè", as on his 1782 wedding contract.