Before he finished his schooling, however, he left for Livorno in 1797 to begin his apprenticeship with a trading firm.

[2] He planned to open a piano store in the following years, but the project failed for lack of funds.

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.

[5] He also frequently attended events related to his father until his death in Milan in 1858.

Like his brother, he was unmarried and childless; thus the Mozart family line died with him.