Who were Mozart's contemporaries?
Mozart lived from 1756 to 1791, an age of upheaval. Alongside him worked the painters, thinkers and rulers who shaped the very same years.
The highlighted column is Mozart's life. Each bar is someone whose own life overlapped it.
Meanwhile, in the same years.
A new nation
While the young Mozart was composing, the American colonies declared independence in 1776.
The machine age stirs
As Mozart toured Europe as a 13-year-old prodigy, James Watt patented his improved steam engine in 1769, a spark of the Industrial Revolution.
Reason beside music
Immanuel Kant was already in his thirties when Mozart was born and outlived him by more than a decade. Enlightenment philosophy ran right alongside the age of Mozart.
A whole world in motion
The same years held George Washington leading a revolution and Catherine the Great ruling Russia, far beyond the concert halls of Vienna.
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