France

Two journeys took W. A. Mozart to France, where his performances delighted King Louis XV and his court. Mozart visited Paris as a child and again as a young man, meeting many of the great intellectuals of the time. During his second stay, his mother died there, on July 3, 1778. W. A. Mozart visited a total of 18 cities on his journeys to and from Paris. His very first printed compositions (K. 6–7 and K. 8–9) were published in Paris as Opus I and Opus II.

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