Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart would have had a birthday this week. He was born on January 27th, 1756. By the age of three, he was picking out chords on the family piano. Mozart’s father was an accomplished composer himself but pretty much gave up teaching little Wolfgang by the time he hit five years old. The little guy resisted formal training and just seemed to have an innate connection to the music that went beyond traditional learning.
In fact, his ease of creating musical works gained him the scorn of his contemporaries. While fictionalized, the 
movie Amadeus reveals the jealous and angry feelings of Antonio Salieri, another composer in Vienna, Austria at the time:
