Mozart owned a starling, Shostakovich loved his dog, and Ravel was smitten with his kittens. We take a look at our favourite ...

Locke's study offers new insights into much-loved masterworks by composers such as Cavalli, Lully, Purcell, Rameau, Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck, and Mozart. In these works ... Angela Kang Source: Music and ...

Today, the portrait hangs in Mozart’s eight-room home into which his family moved in 1773. Eager tourists can admire the original piano with only ... get enough of his music.” ...

Francesco Corti is one of the few people to have played Mozart’s ... the idea is that music should speak the same way. Even the action of playing is different. A modern piano demands the whole ...

Mozart can be a “love or hate” composer for many concertgoers, yet if you think of Wolfgang Amadeus as the fun-loving guy who wrote “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik,” the deep, introspective “C Minor Mass” is ...

But her music feels fresh, youthful ... Next on the program was something old, a classic Mozart Piano Concerto that the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Khatia Buniatishvili has been one of the most well-known classical musicians for more than a decade, but she prefers to keep the chatter about her celebrity buried beneath the ...

But it’s her command of the stage, combined with her expressive performance energy and glamourous exterior that has made her a household name in classical music. The pianist, born in the country ...

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But it’s her command of the stage, combined with her expressive performance energy and glamourous exterior that has made her a household name in classical music. The pianist, born in the country ...