Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (27 January 1756, Salzburg; 5 December 1791, Vienna), composer, made his initial contribution to the repertory of the Royal Academy of Music in Paris on 11 June 1778 with the ballet Les Petits Riens, a work that was billed as having been created by Noverre , not by Mozart, because the German composer was still unknown and lacking box-office appeal. Mozart was neither happy nor successful in Paris, and he never returned there after his first and only sojourn of six…