When I studied composition with the late Leonard Stein, one of my regular assignments was to compose minuets for string quartet “in the style of Mozart and Haydn.” It was no accident that Stein ...

Mozart wrote a lot for the piano, but his piano and our piano have some interesting differences. In Midday Mozart, Emily Boyer will talk about those and we’ll hear a lively performance by a specialist ...

It’s one of Mozart’s famous melodies that inspired Helene Liebmann in her cello sonata from 1806. She was a German pianist and composer who didn’t publish much, but we’ll get to hear her music this ...

Deveau and the Borromeo String Quartet perform piano concertos by Mozart and Beethoven as chamber music on a new recording. Lloyd Schwartz says the album is "full of feeling and discovery." This is ...

Fans of the movie "The Sound of Music" know the gardens of Salzburg's Schloss Mirabell (Mirabell Palace) well. Julie Andrews and the Von Trapp children sing and dance their way around a fountain and a ...

A previously unknown piece of music likely composed by a teenage Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was recently uncovered at a library in Germany. The piece, which dates to the mid- to late-1760s, consists of ...

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Mozart never made it to America: getting seasick crossing the English Channel put an end to any of his seafaring fantasies. But America was frequently on Mozart's mind. In fact, his closest ...