He also served as official translator for Italian for the Austrian Court Chamber. He moved to Milan in 1805 and studied music with Bonifazio Asioli, though he gave up his studies in 1810 to become an official in the service of the Austrian financial administration and the governmental accounting department in Milan. He planned to open a piano store in the following years, but the project failed for lack of funds. Before he finished his schooling, however, he left for Livorno in 1797 to begin his apprenticeship with a trading firm. His schooling, in Prague, was under Franz Xaver Niemetschek and František Xaver Dušek, and he became a gifted pianist. The other was Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart. Karl Thomas Mozart (21 September 1784 – 31 October 1858) was the second son and the elder of the two surviving sons of Wolfgang and Constanze Mozart. The two surviving sons of Wolfgang Amadeus and Constanze Mozart: Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (left) and Karl Thomas (right) (by Hans Hansen, Vienna, 1800)
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