Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a multi-instrumentalist musician who began performing in public at the age of 6. Mozart worked with various European venues and patrons throughout his life, composing hundreds of works that included sonatas, symphonies, masses, chamber music, concertos, and operas, all of which were marked by vivid emotion and sophisticated textures. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was Leopold and Maria Pertl Mozart's only surviving son. Wolfgang showed early signs of excelling beyond his father's teachings, with an early composition at five and great harpsichord and violin abilities. He would go on to play the piano, organ, and viola in the future.