This child prodigy became one of the most popular and prolific classical composers of all time, having written more than 600 pieces of music in his short lifetime. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in ...

In his lifetime, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed upwards of 600 works—symphonies, operas, sonatas, and concertos—that have fixed him in the pantheon of Western Classical music. His known oeuvre, ...

In honor of the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth, his music is being performed around the globe. A controversial new production of an unfinished opera Mozart wrote when he was 23, ...

From what we know, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived at least two-thirds of the maxim: live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse. Whatever the cause of death of the composer, it appears to have ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operas are all multifaceted affairs, but none more so than "Cosi fan tutte." Besides the humor, vitality and humanity that all his comedies contain, the work has a ...

Kathryn Lewek has made a specialty of singing the showstopping role in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” “It’s my security blanket,” she said. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Each of the city’s opera houses ...

Biography: Mozart was born Jan. 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He died on Dec. 5, 1791 in Vienna. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. Leopold and ...

Lorenzo Da Ponte, a colorful figure from the past, has an interesting Sunbury connection. Da Ponte penned the texts for three of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operas before he left Europe and moved to ...

Margarida Bastos is a native Portuguese writer with an avid interest in gaming, anime, theatre, books, film and TV. Essentially, everything that has to do with the multifaceted nature and fascinating ...

‘Amadeus,” the 1984 eight Academy Award-winning Miloš Forman film, didn’t originate the idea that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was poisoned by his mediocre colleague Antonio Salieri, nor the 1979 Tony ...

Robert Levin has long argued that Mozart would have made up new material while performing, and he follows the master in a series of dazzling recordings. By Zachary Woolfe Compared with previous ...