An archivist named François-Pierre Goy was examining a pile of anonymous manuscripts when a 44-page notebook filled with ...
Opera San José’s 43rd season will open with Mozart’s operatic masterpiece, Don Giovanni. A vivid retelling of the Don Juan legend, this “dramma giocosa” blends dark comedy and tragedy to explore the ...
What's so great about Mozart? Well, just about everything. A former child prodigy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was staggeringly prolific, penning at least 626 published works over his eventful ...
For generations, music historians worked on the assumption that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's surviving manuscripts had been ...
The six-part ARD event series "Mozart/Mozart" takes an unusual look at the Mozart phenomenon - bringing into the spotlight a woman forgotten by history: Maria Anna Mozart (1751-1829), the equally ...
A previously unknown piece of music likely composed by a teenage Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was recently uncovered at a library in Germany. The piece, which dates to the mid- to late-1760s, consists of ...
British-Jamaican coloratura soprano Rachel Duckett soars in Mozart's tempestuous 'Der Hölle Rache' from The Magic Flute for ...
Hot news in the world of 18th century classical chamber music today, as French news agency Agence France-Presse reports that a new single has just dropped from the Vienna wunderkind himself, Wolfgang ...
The Mozart notebook was found in a stack of roughly 20 manuscripts at the National Library of France. Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP via Getty Images As he leafed through the notebook, François-Pierre Goy ...
A viral tweet recalls a wonderful anecdote, written into classical music lore, that when Mozart grew bored in opera rehearsals, he would start miaowing and acting like a cat. Fur real... Wolfgang ...
What’s the difference between a viola and a trampoline? You take your shoes off to jump on a trampoline. Those damn viola jokes! Though usually good-natured and funny, they nonetheless belittle a ...