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 ...
Probably the greatest genius in Western musical history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, Jan. 27, 1756, the son of Leopold Mozart and his wife, Anna Maria Pertl. Leopold was a ...
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 ...
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An Archivist Found Mozart’s 248-Year-Old Notebook. The Lost Masterpieces Inside Tell a Wild Story.
An archivist named François-Pierre Goy was examining a pile of anonymous manuscripts when a 44-page notebook filled with ...
Mozart: The Early Years by Stanley Sadie (Oxford University Press £25, pp672) Mozart and his Operas by David Cairns (Allen Lane £22, pp304) Anniversaries generate their own momentum. The 250th ...
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 ...
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 ...
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