What Mozart Really Looked Like: 14 Portraits of the Composer (Photos & Music)

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What did Mozart really look like? Fourteen images and descriptions from biographies of the great composer.

Published Feb. 9 2013 4:45AM EST

articles/2013/02/09/what-mozart-really-looked-like-14-portraits-of-the-composer-photos-music/130209-rediscovering-mozart-tease_ei3ydp — Alfredo Dagli Orti/The Art Archive, via Corbis

Fourteen images of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made during his lifetime are known to exist, and the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, is showing 12 of them in an exhibit aimed at dispelling

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What Mozart Really Looked Like: 14 Portraits of the Composer (Photos & Music)

What did Mozart really look like? Fourteen images and descriptions from biographies of the great composer.

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