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III. Read the passage below and choose the best answer for each question.

Mozart, who was born on January 27

th

, 1756 in the Australia city of Salzburg, was neither the first

nor the last child prodigy, but he was certainly the greatest. He was born into a moderately prosperous

family where his unmatched musical genius made itself known extremely early.

Mozart began learning to play harpsichord at three and his earliest known work was composed in

1761 when he was five, the age at which he also first appeared in public.

From the age of six, when his father took him on the first foreign tour, Mozart toured the courts

and musical centers of Austria, Germany, France, England, Holland, Switzerland and Italy. It has been

calculated that Mozart spent almost a third of his short life – he died at the age of thirty-five – travelling.

As Mozart matured, he continued to tour and give concerts. Mozart also wrote a lot of operas. His

first opera, Mitridate, Re Di Ponto, was performed in Milan when he was 14, and it was his first success in

the theatre.