Few composers loom larger in the popular imagination than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Certainly Beethoven's music is more familiar, but even those who don't know their Figaro from their Fidelio have some ...

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 ...

MOZART: A Life. By Paul Johnson. Viking. 176 pages. $25.95. British historian and biographer Paul Johnson, the prolific author of more than 40 books, has written a concise introduction to the life and ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mozart's wild ride from child prodigy to accomplished composer was fueled with strong family relationships -- some nurturing and others crippling. Mozart's father hoped that his son's musical talent ...