Leopold Mozart (mar 1, 1719 – aug 1, 1787)

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Father of WAM, deputy music director in the court of the prince-archbishop of Salzburg, who ruled this important city-state near the Bavarian border. By 1762, when the prodigy was six years old, his father gave up most of his duties as well as his own composing career so that he could oversee his son's musical education. He also began to display Mozart's amazing gifts to the courts and musical centers of Europe on a grand tour that lasted more than three years. Mozart would later emphasize the importance of these early trips, especially welcome as they allowed him to leave his native Salzburg, a city he came to detest. In his early twenties he wrote to his father: "I assure you that people who do not travel (I mean those who cultivate the arts and learning) are indeed miserable creatures."

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