Mr. Mozart, please let me catch my breath—Notes on practicing 'The Magic Flute'

In this week's lesson, I worked on 'How Beautiful the Sound of the Bells' from Mozart's opera 'The Magic Flute'.Since I am ...
The Guardian

‘I’ve been trying to play Mozart for 60 years. On this, my last recording, I think I’ve finally cracked it’

Mozart’s sublime music is deceptively difficult to play. Conductor Roger Norrington explains how the composer’s own father helped rewire brains and eradicate wobble Who was it who said that two of the ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

1000 Years of Classical Music: Mozart Piano Concertos

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 ...

What Mozart Did for a Student Who Couldn't Compose

Mozart turned into a donkey.It wasn't because a witch cast a spell on him. He did it of his own accord. And right in the ...
PBS

A symphony of second opinions on Mozart's final illness

For classical music lovers, December 5 may be the saddest day of the year. At 12:55 a.m., 225 years ago, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart drew his last breath. Later, he was unceremoniously buried in a common ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Mozart: In Search of the Roots of Genius

It is the kind of joke Mozart would have appreciated. Like the wit in some of his operas, it is unexpected, mischievous, deflating, childish, even a bit humiliating: it can be found on the outskirts ...