Mozart composed his first opera, Apollo et Hyacinthus when he was only 11. A year later the Emperor Joseph II commissioned him to write La finta semplice. In August 1782 he married Constanze Weber.

Alex Mozart was born in Trieste on April 12, 1926. He was a student of the painter Gianfilippo Usellini and collaborated with the masters of "spatialism," especially Roberto Crippa. In 1950, Alex ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. This 1845 biography of Mozart by the music journalist Edward Holmes was the first ...

Petersen, Nils Holger 2023. W. A. Mozart’s Litaniae lauretanae Compositions and the Loreto Pilgrimage. Eventum: A Journal of Medieval Arts & Rituals, Vol. 1, Issue. , p. 82. Mozart's enduring ...

Of the more than 700 handwritten Mozart family letters that have been preserved, just fragments of a handful of her letters remain. Letter writing was expensive, so they used as little paper as ...

This biography of Mozart features portraits music commentary rare archival material and concludes with an informative outline of the key works Background excerpts are performed by the Elysian ...

Child prodigy, flawed human, musical giant. Letters, manuscripts and performances reveal the making of a man who created some of the world’s most magnificent music.

German composer, conductor, performer, and teacher, Max Reger (1863-1916) famously said: “Bach is the beginning and end of ...

I still remember the moment I first became aware of Gabriel Fauré. I say “became aware”, because Fauré is not a composer ...

Instead of the usual music biography format ... pay more attention to Mozart these days than contemporaries such as Antonio Salieri. Years from now, will my students’ children be rabid fans ...

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