Few composers loom larger in the popular imagination than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Certainly Beethoven's music is more familiar, but even those who don't know their Figaro from their Fidelio have some ...

The documents of Mozart’s life — letters, memoirs of friends, portraits, bureaucratic files — have long been scrutinized at a microscopic level. So when his name was discovered two decades ago in a ...

Mozart’s Symphony No. 36, known as the “Linz,” was tossed off in four days in 1783 when the 27-year-old composer arrived in the Austrian city and needed a new piece for his host, Count Thun-Hohenstein ...

It’s not just Mozart’s music that’s dramatic: It’s his letters, too. At age 26, the legendary composer wrote to his close friend Baroness von Waldstätten to say that he will need to get married within ...

Once upon a time biographies appeared without source notes. Biographers might very well allude to where they obtained their information, but no particular effort was made to anchor facts and sentences ...

LONDON, June 14 (Reuters) - A letter showing Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a "complete panic" over his love life is set to go up for auction at Christie's in London next month. Written ...

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Jane Glover, author of Mozart's Women, introduces us to the composer's mother, sister and wife, and the music that they inspired. We hear his Symphony No. 31, with Paul McCreesh conducting the West ...

Most extraordinary of all musical geniuses was Austria’s Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Starting his career as a four-fold infant prodigy (harpsichordist, violinist, organist, composer), he wrote, during ...

Mozart: The Reign of Love. By Jan Swafford.Harper; 832 pages; $45. Faber & Faber; £30. THE MOMENT he saw an organ, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart knew what to do with it. Aged six, already a prodigy on the ...