Biography: Mozart was born Jan. 27 ... Mozart performed in all the major courts of Europe before he was ten years old. As an adult, Mozart wrote and performed works in every major genre of ...

This year’s festival, which runs from June 18 to 28, will feature musicians from some of the nation’s top orchestras, such as ...

As Jan Swafford writes in his outstanding biography, Mozart’s compositions displayed ... energy”; the Piano Trio in B-flat Major has “only a touch of galant preciousness”.

But through a dozen or so major biographies and the 1984 movie Amadeus, what has most captivated the popular imagination are Mozart's childhood accomplishments. As the historian Paul Johnson ...

Maynard Solomon’s biography explores the immense struggle ... for the slight edge to Vienna’s 2006 celebrations of Mozart. Major performances, of course, are planned, and the historic Theater ...

Brendel has also written that “the minor confronts you in Mozart as the superior force”. Superior to what? To the major, I suppose, but also to what Kenneth Clark in Civilisation called the ...

The Clarinet Concerto in A, K622, completed in 1791, the year of Mozart’s death, marked his farewell to instrumental music. It was also the first clarinet concerto to be written by a major composer – ...

On her previous disc of early Mozart piano concertos (CDA67840), Angela Hewitt directed the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova from the keyboard. Here in two later ones – the G major of 1784 and the ...

The four-page score looked like the original Piano Sonata in A Major, K.331, one of the most well-known sonatas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mikusi cross-checked his finding with Mozart experts ...

The four-page score looked like the original Piano Sonata in A Major, K.331, one of the most well-known sonatas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mikusi cross-checked his finding with Mozart experts ...