Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (1719 –1787) was a composer, conductor, teacher, and
violinist. He is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and
for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule.
Leopold Mozart's music is inevitably overshadowed by the work of his son Wolfgang, but his
Cassation in G for Orchestra and Toys (Toy Symphony), once attributed to Joseph Haydn,
remains popular, and a number of symphonies, a trumpet concerto, and other works also survive.