Mozart's London house: Belgravia property where musical prodigy wrote first symphony sells in five weeks

The house in Belgravia where Mozart composed his first symphony has sold for £3 million more than when it was last on the market six years ago.

The new owner of the Grade I-listed Georgian property paid close to the £7.5 million asking price just five weeks after it went on sale.

The five-bedroom home was built in 1730 and was occupied by the eight-year-old musical prodigy, his father and other members of the family during the summer of 1764, when Ebury Street was in the countryside outside London.

There Mozart wrote his first symphony, No 1 in E-flat major K16.

It is one of a terrace in Ebury Street, called Fivefields Row at the time but later renamed Mozart Terrace.

The house was given a Grade I listing in 1958 and has a plaque commemorating the period of residence of the genius behind works such as The Magic Flute and the Marriage Of Figaro.

The property last changed hands in April 2013 with a price of £4.5 million, meaning that its value has soared by two thirds in six years.

The main house has four reception rooms and three bedrooms.

At the end of the 110 ft garden there is an office with shower room and a separate staff bedroom suite and guest flat with kitchenette, bedroom and shower room.

William Duckworth-Chad, from Savills, said the property had attracted unusually wide interest from British and foreign buyers, in part because of the musical connection.