Culture points

Edinburgh       爱丁堡（苏格兰首府）

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland. It is the second most populous city in Scotland and the seventh most populous in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest financial centre in the UK after London. The city’s historical and cultural attractions have made it the second most popular tourist destination in the United Kingdom after London, attracting over one million overseas visitors each year.

Mozart   莫扎特

（1756-1791，奥地利作曲家、维也纳古典乐派主要代表）

Mozart, born in Salzburg (a city in Austria), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. He was competent on keyboard and violin by age five, and he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty.

At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death. 

The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized. He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons. He composed more than 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence is profound on subsequent Western art music.