mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an Austrian musician and composer. He lived from 1756 to 1791. He started composing at the age of five years old and wrote more than 600 pieces of music. He was only 35 years old when he died.
The verbs "was, lived,started, wrote, died" are in the simple past tense.
Notice that:
lived, started,died are regular past forms.
was, wrote are irregular past forms.