

There are a lot of stories about Mozart's death. The two sons who lived to be adults never married or had children.Īlthough many people recognized the greatness of Mozart's music while he was alive, he was never totally successful.

Mozart and Constanze were happy, but poor. The Mozarts had six children. Mozart’s father, who was very involved in Mozart's life, did not approve of the marriage. Mozart was not very good at getting commissions and he was really bad at managing money. Commissions were the only real way a composer could make money in the Classical Period. Mozart taught piano lessons and tried to get people in Vienna to commission music from him - that means to pay him to write music for them. In 1781 Mozart traveled to Vienna, where he would live for the rest of his life.
