Mozart, like Shakespeare, continues to grow. His music is an ever-expanding universe. The better we know it — the more we explore its heights and depths — the more marvelous it becomes. Yet its ...
On July 13, the Boston Symphony Orchestra presents “Tanglewood in the City,” simulcasting its concert in the Berkshires on a video screen on Boston Common. The music, by Wagner, Mozart, and Schumann, ...
The sign on the old sunlit house reads "Machine Factory" but now handiwork reigns in this workshop where replicas of fortepianos once played by the world's greatest musical geniuses are created. Since ...
Who knew that Alexander Pushkin’s 1830 play Mozart and Salieri would be the gift that kept giving? It fictionalises the famous rivalry between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his lesser-known contemporary ...
This charming though possibly apochryphal story reinforces the image of Mozart as a thoroughly innate, instinctive composer who by virtue of his God-given genius was able to bypass the processes of ...
Matthew Bengtson believes the best way to perform music written by Mozart is on the instrument the classical composer, who lived in the mid-1700s, played. To that end, Bengtson will bring his 1785 ...
Salzburg was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's home for the first 25 years of his brief 35-year life, and the city still hums with his precocious energy. Salzburg offers visitors plenty of opportunities to ...