It's hard to listen to these zesty, robust performances of Mozart's overtures without feeling a keen desire to plunge right in to the operas they're meant to introduce - which is both the blessing and ...

He was baptized Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. He went by Wolfgang Amadeus but liked to be called Amadè. He died Dec. 5, 1791, less than two months before his 36 th birthday, and ...