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Mozart's career began when, with his sister, Maria Anna, he was taken on a number of tours in 176279, visiting Munich, Vienna, the Rhineland, Holland, Paris, London, and Italy. He had already begun to compose. In 1772 he was appointed master of the archbishop of Salzburg's court band, but did not like the post and in 1781 was suddenly dismissed. He married Constanze Weber in 1782, settled in Vienna, and started a punishing freelance career as a concert pianist, composer, and teacher that brought lasting fame but only irregular financial security. His Requiem, unfinished at his death, was completed by a pupil.
His works were catalogued chronologically in 1862 by the musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (18001877) whose system of numbering giving each work a Köchel number for example, K354 remains in use in modified form.