Mozart was born in the family bedroom on January 27, 1756. He was small and weak as an infant, and his parents worried he wouldn't survive. Wolfgang was the last of seven children for his parents, but ...

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 ...

But the question “Who killed Mozart?” has never been a medical one. As William Stafford argued in The Mozart Myths (1991), ...

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: A Life. By Paul Johnson. Viking. 176 pages. $25.95. British historian and biographer Paul Johnson, the prolific author of more than 40 books, has written a concise introduction to the life and ...

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 ...

It’s the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the prewar home of the family that inspired “The Sound of Music.” And if that wasn’t reason enough to visit, next year it’s the centennial ...

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Schloss Stuppach is the last remaining authentic Mozart site in the world that can be put to a new use internationally.” — Reinhard Zellinger, owner of Schloss ...

SALZBURG, Austria (Reuters Life!) - If the percussion, tam-tams and gongs did not give the game away, all was revealed when conductor Pierre Boulez strode onstage. The appearance of the man who has ...