Leopold's letter to his daughter , 14—16 May 1785.
At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position.
In London and Italy, the galant style was in the ascendent: simple, light music with a mania for ; an emphasis on tonic, dominant, and subdominant to the exclusion of other harmonies; symmetrical phrases; and clearly articulated partitions in the overall form of movements.
Later years 1788—90 Drawing of Mozart in , made by during Mozart's visit to Dresden, April 1789 Toward the end of the decade, Mozart's circumstances worsened.
Mozart and his father visited Vienna from 14 July to 26 September 1773, and Munich from 6 December 1774 to March 1775.
With substantial returns from his concerts and elsewhere, Mozart and his wife adopted a more luxurious lifestyle.
The following March, Mozart was summoned to Vienna, where his employer, Archbishop Colloredo, was attending the celebrations for the accession of to the Austrian throne.
He is thought to have benefited from the sale of dance music written in his role as Imperial chamber composer.