Maybe he needed a piece of music in a hurry, or thought he could get more mileage out of melodies he'd written, but whatever the reason, Mozart recycled his Serenade K 204 into a lovely violin ...

It’s one of Mozart’s famous melodies that inspired Helene Liebmann in her cello sonata from 1806. She was a German pianist and composer who didn’t publish much, but we’ll get to hear her music this ...

When I studied composition with the late Leonard Stein, one of my regular assignments was to compose minuets for string quartet “in the style of Mozart and Haydn.” It was no accident that Stein ...

Over the past fifty years, there have been remarkable claims about the effects of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music. Reports about alleged symptom-alleviating effects of listening to Mozart's Sonata ...

Great works of art about historical figures often overshadow the actual people behind the mythology. When it comes to biographical details, only ardent history buffs can readily separate England’s ...

Researchers from Germany assessed the effect of listening to music on people’s blood pressure, and made comparisons to other, more established, means to lower blood pressure such as dietary changes ...