Yekaterina Todika Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was baptized in Salzburg Cathedral on the day after his birth as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus. The first and last given names come from his godfather Joannes Theophilus Pergmayr, although Mozart preferred the Latin form of this last name, Amadeus, more often Amade, or the Italiano Amadeo. Whatever the case may be, he rarely-if ever-used Theophilus in his signature. The name Chrysostomus originates from St. John Chrysostom, …showed first 75 words of 1831 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1831 total…crass innocent of Peter Schaeffer’s Amadeus. His music is reputed to make one smarter. 8 List of works cited. Anderson, Emily, ed. The Letters of Mozart and His Family. New York, 1985 Deutsch, Otto Erich. Mozart: A Documentary Biography. Stanford, 1965 Elias, Norbert. Mozart: Portrait of a Genius. Berkeley, 1993 Halliwell, Ruth. The Mozart Family: Four Lives in a Social Context. Oxford, 1998 Schenk, Erich. Mozart and His Times. New York, 1959 Zaslaw, Neal. Mozart’s Symphonies. Oxford, 1989 Word Count: 1853