1956 AD., Austria, 200th anniversary birth of Mozart commemorative, Vienna / Wien mint, 25 Schilling, KM 2881.

Austria, 200th anniversary birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart commemorative, Vienna / Wien mint, engravers: Edwin Grienauer (obverse) and Arnold Hartig (rev.), 1956 AD.,
25 Schilling (30 mm / 12,97 g), 0.800 silver, 13,00 g theor. mint weight, mintage 5.000.500 , medal alignment ↑↑ , plain edge with incuse legend " * * FUENFUNDZWANZIG SCHILLING ",
Obv.: WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART / 1756 - 1956 / GRIENAUER, frontal view of Mozart´s full length statue, monument of Mozart situated at the Hofburg palace in Vienna, Austria.
Rev.: REPUBLIK / ÖSTERREICH // 25 / SCHILLING , value number within a beaded circle, small spray of leaves below, surrounded by 3/4 circle of nine shields of arms of the nine states of Austria.
KM 2881 .

Year / Mintage
1956 4,999,000
1956 1,500 (proof)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.
Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. 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.
Mozart learned voraciously from others, and developed a brilliance and maturity of style that encompassed the light and graceful along with the dark and passionate. His influence on subsequent Western art music is profound. Beethoven wrote his own early compositions in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years."

The Mozart monument is situated at the entrance at the Ringstraße of the Burggarten of the Hofburg palace in Vienna, Austria. It was built by Viktor Tilgner in 1896.