Twenty-three was probably not Mozart’s favourite age. He’d arrived back in Salzburg in mid-January with pretty much nothing to keep him away — and nothing on the horizon, either. As of 25 February he ...

Once upon a time biographies appeared without source notes. Biographers might very well allude to where they obtained their information, but no particular effort was made to anchor facts and sentences ...

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 ...

Granta Books has snapped up rights to biography Mozart in Motion by poet Patrick Mackie. Publishing director Bella Lacey signed world rights from the author. The biography is scheduled for publication ...

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Decca and Deutsche Grammophon have announced a gigantic, 200-CD box set that contains every single work -- all the symphonies, concertos and operas, plus a newly discovered composition -- by… By Marc ...

The doctor did not care to leave the opera that night in early December 1791, when he received word that an ailing patient of his had taken a turn for the worse. He told the messenger that he would ...