Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer Ann Clyne (credit: Victoria Stevens), composer John Adams (credit: Christine Alicino). Mozart's Violin Concerto #5 is the type of piece you can stomp your feet along ...

The 'Mozart effect' phenomenon was first suggested by a scientific study published in 1993 in the respected journal Science. It showed that teenagers who listened to Mozart's 1781 Sonata for Two ...

There are countless great composers in classical music.Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Debussy...Even so, there are three people who appear at the center of the conversation time and again ...

Beethoven takes 19 places in top 300 chart of works to best Mozart’s 16 in Classic FM’s Hall of Fame poll – world’s biggest public vote on classical music tastes Beethoven has beaten Mozart for the ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: the ultimate child prodigy. He started playing piano at the age of three and is credited with writing his first symphony at the age of eight. Some claimed his talent was a ...

Amazon mp3: $9 | Amazon CD: $11| ArkivMusic: $17 | Qobuz download: £7.99 | iTunes mp3: $10 Volume 4 of a new Mozart Piano Sonata cycle has appeared on the Oehms label and it is now apparent that they ...

There is a wonderful scene – one of many – in the 1984 Milos Forman film adaptation of Peter Schaffer’s play Amadeus, in which the jealous Salieri sees the score of Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto ...

Page and his company, Classical Opera, are to embark on the Mozart 250 project, marking the anniversary of the composer’s visit to London during which, aged eight, he wrote his first symphony. The ...

Some passages sound astonishingly modern – there’s a disconcerting moment 11 minutes in where a dry bass line is answered by sharp wind chords. Just when you think it’s about to end peacefully, the ...

Unearthing long-buried pieces of history have fuelled the plot of many summer-read novels. But how many of these discoveries happen in real life? In 2024, two library archives announced the unearthing ...

Fine, we’ll admit it: Mozart was a pig! It’s a fact, for example, that Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (1756-1791), better known as Wolfgang Amadeus, enjoyed scatological humor, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A scholar dared to complete violin sonata fragments left by the great composer. They’re featured on a new album. By Zachary Woolfe For a musician, ...