Imagine this: being three years old and knowing how to to play the piano, then at age five, writing a composition. “[He] played the keyboard at three and wrote his first compositions when he was five.” For Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, this was the start of something that would change music for centuries to come. The young age at which he started playing piano was remarkable then, and it is still considered remarkable today. Mozart is mainly known for being a child prodigy because he learned how to play piano at age three, but throughout his life he was able to develop a lot more than just his piano skills. He was able to develop a very unique stylistic way of composing music, and he helped form the music we listen to today;however, how did …show more content…
This instrument was very uncommon in the classical era and today there is only one surviving pair in the world. The piano is on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. This piano was one way that Mozart affected the classical era. Furthermore, Mozart’s style in composing also affected his time period because he had a unique way of composing. Mozart’s composition did not look like the common composition in his day. He put in things that most composers would not have put in their pieces because he was willing to take risks in order to make his wonderful compositions. His style also developed as he got older, and as he had more experience writing compositions. That being said, even his early work are pieces of art. Similarly, parallels between `variety of materials' in the narration and thematic variety in Mozart's expositions, and between `amplification' in the confirmatio and techniques such as fragmentation, textural change and sectionalization in Mozart's development sections are too general to sustain a convincing analogy between musical and rhetorical