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 grew up in Salzburg, but over a third of his adolescence was spent traveling Europe showing off his extraordinary keyboard skills and learning from other composers and musicians. We know a lot ...

Mozart didn't have an ordinary childhood. He never went to school. And he didn't live at home very much. Instead, his father, Leopold, packed up the family and traveled Europe to show off the ...

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

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 ...

Pianist Jeremy Denk has finally had the space and time to finish his forthcoming memoir Every Good Boy Does Fine, which will resonate with you if you took piano lessons as a kid. It releases this ...

A previously unknown piece of music by one of the world's most celebrated composers has been uncovered. The 12-minute piece by Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is called "Ganz kleine ...

For decades, headlines have claimed that Mozart’s music has all kinds of amazing effects on people’s behaviour and performance. But once you look closer at the different studies behind those headlines ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Robert Levin has long argued that Mozart would have made up new material while performing, and he follows the master in a series of ...