Wolfgang & The Wolf Gang

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is known to many as the musical prodigy whose music lives on forever. What many do not realize, however, is that the entire Mozart family was musically gifted. Wolfgangs father, Leopold, and mother, Anna Maria, were both gifted musicians who passed talent onto their young children, Maria Anna, Givenche Haradis, and Wolfgang Amadeus. In an attempt to exploit the childrens gifts the Mozart family decided to set out on a great tour through all of Europe in the year 1763.

While in London, the Mozart family played an especially rousing performance for the Royal Family & other Noblemen. After the performance, the especially interested Duke Royalmount offered the family a huge sum (the actual amount has never been recorded) to allow them to leave behind Wolfgang for the Duke’s pleasure. He assured the family that the best treatment/education would be given to young Wolfgang, only 8 years old at the time.

The true nature of the Duke’s intentions were soon revealed to young Wolfgang. The Duke was actually a member of a very secret organization named the Wolfenz - a group of elites who forced their will upon villages through intimidation. The members guised themselves as “Werewolves” in attempts to grip the entire country in fear and gain control of England, and eventually Europe. The group wanted young Wolfgang to compose musical pieces that the group could use to instill fear. Many times the organization would hire groups of musicians to perform Mozart’s compositions at the edge of a village. The Wolfenz would then attack, thereby creating an association between the compositions and a “Werewolf” attack. Wolfgang served the group for 3 years, writing some of his most intense and gothic works, many of which have never been published. When Wolfgang was 11 years old, his family went on their third tour. During this time, Wolfgang escaped the Duke’s camp and rejoined his family. He trashed all the compositions and kept his experience a secret - only confiding in his peer Johann Sebastian Bach many years later. Later on he wrote his most famous piece, The Marriage of Figaro, based on his experiences with the Wolfenz.

The Wolfenz never recuperated from the loss of their young composer. The fear he instilled through his compositions could never be matched. However, the Werewolf mythology spread across Europe, and still survives to this day.