Copy of a portrait of Mozart from 1777 by Padre Martini of Bologna. The summer of 1791 saw Mozart hard at work on not one, but two operas. The Magic Flute was mostly complete by July when it was ...
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 ...
If you’re like me, conversations about the line between Classical and Romantic music can cause you to shudder at memories of cramming for music theory tests in middle school. Composers in Vienna in ...
New Yorkers who can hustle to Lincoln Center on Wednesday night for the second of two performances, of works by Mozart and Brahms, by the pianist Martin Helmchen and the Mostly Mozart Festival ...
When you’re young, you want the hits. Those songs that enliven you, connect you to pop culture and showcase some of the major players on the music scene who are shaping the future. But after you live ...
It was the discovery of a lifetime. In February, François-Pierre Goy, a curator at the National Library of France, was ...
Forget rock ‘n’ roll — Amazon’s latest dramedy is taking on the world of sex, drugs and classical music. “Mozart in the Jungle” (all 10 episodes premiere Tuesday) is a behind- the-scenes look at the ...
Last month, Amazon posted the entire first season — 10 episodes — of a new series about classical music, "Mozart in the Jungle." The series, which stars such luminaries as Bernadette Peters, Malcolm ...
Do lullabies send babies to sleep? Does Mozart really make your child smarter? We look at some of classical music’s biggest impacts on babies and children. For thousands of years, parents have been ...