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The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture
These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness.



#90: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was a composer whose concertos, operas, symphonies and more broke new ground and transcended traditional limits.

All of his works have an exalted, luminous quality to them, and the words "elegance" and "poise" come automatically to mind when hearing his music. Mozart's playful and lively music along with his more solemn compositions are performed and enjoyed by millions around the globe. The standard of excellence Mozart set inspired many later composers, including Beethoven.

His mastery of every form in which he worked and ceaseless creativity resulted in music that showed the world for all time the brilliance that can be achieved by the art form.



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