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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart moved to Vienna in 1781 aged 25. Here he fell out with his employer, the Archbishop of Salzburg. As a result Mozart resigned his secure source of employment in his native Salzburg and opted for a freelance career in Vienna. Mozart was respected and successful as a musician and happy in his private life. He composed piano concerti, chamber music works and the very famous opera "The Marriage of Figaro". In spite of his success the family was heavily in debt and Mozart worked frantically in order to earn more money to support them all. "The Magic Flute" was composed in this time and the famously unfinished Requiem, incomplete because Mozart suddenly took ill and died on the 5th December 1791. His remains received the last blessings in the 'Kruzifixkapelle' in St. Stephen's Cathedral. Parts of the Requiem were performed for the first time during the wake at the Michaelerkirche. Then, Mozart was buried at St. Marx Cemetery. 60 years after his death a monument was errected at the grave yard to commemorate this great musician, 100 years after his death this memorial was moved to the graves of honor on the Zentral Graveyard. The first district's Burggarten features a very impressive Mozart memorial and this is, what you see here on this image.