A Christmas ornament featuring the likeness of famed 18th-century Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart hangs from an outdoor Christmas tree along a busy Vienna street in December 2014. (CNS photo ...

How a legendary friendship between Mozart and his favorite horn player inspired a masterpiece full of inside jokes.

A History of Great RecordingsMozart's piano concertos are among the repertoire that best showcases a pianist's ...

A performance of Mozart’s choral masterpiece marks English National Opera’s return to the Coliseum. Its artistic director explains why the composer’s last work, written as he drew his final breaths, ...

Mozart wrote three of his finest piano concertos, nos 23, 24 and 25, in a single year. Beauty, passion and grace combine as the piano engages in an intimate dialogue with the orchestra. Watching a ...

Vatican Radio’s music programme Scrigno musicale will broadcast a 45-minute concert by the “Bella Musica” ensemble on Saturday, 12 September. Tune in to Vatican Radio at 10 p.m. CET to hear a ...

A recently discovered Mozart piano piece will be performed by Seong-Jin Cho at Salzburg’s Mozarteum Foundation, and open the 2021 Mozartwoche Festival, to celebrate the composer’s 265th birthday. The ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was not only one of the greatest composers of the Classical period, but one of the greatest of all time. Surprisingly, he is not identified with radical formal or harmonic ...

The epic Mozart family tour that dominated so much of Wolfgang's early life finally came to an end - but what was to come next? Compositions, and plenty of them! 1766 - the tour comes to an end In ...

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 ...

Mozart’s sublime music is deceptively difficult to play. Conductor Roger Norrington explains how the composer’s own father helped rewire brains and eradicate wobble Who was it who said that two of the ...

The ‘meeting’ between Marie Antoinette and the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has a fabled quality, not least because of the oft-repeated folklore that has grown around it. From the point of view of ...