Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the first piano player on the list of the most famous pianists today. Amadeus Mozart is best renowned for being a composer, and although he began writing music at the age of five, he was also a skilled performer and was dubbed the "child prodigy". Nannerl, Mozart's equally gifted sister, praised his infancy playing as "flawless and with the greatest delicacy", asserting that Mozart had an intuitive sense of time.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart only lived for 35 years. However, that time was enough for him to pen some of the world's most well-known classical works. Almost all of his greatest symphonies, piano concertos, and operas were composed in Vienna during his final decade of life. Of course, no recordings of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart playing survive. He did, however, leave a legacy of his compositions. Mozart was a genius in every sense of the word, and he deserves to be at the top of any list of the greatest pianists of all time.

Born: January 27, 1756
Died: December 5, 1791
Aged: 35
Nationality: Austrian