Mozart wrote his first opera Apollo and Hyacinthus at the age of 11.
It tells the story of the ill-fated love between the Sun God and the young Prince of Laconia.
Hyacinthus was killed when Zephyrus, the Wind God, blew Apollo's discus off course and it struck him.
The hyacinth flower sprung up where he fell.
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