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 ...

Mozart wrote five violin concertos, all but one of them in the same year—1775, when he was nineteen. The Concerto No. 1 was written two years before, possibly. Musicologists are unsure. Are they great ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is not unusual for musicians to talk about their instruments as though they were temperamental spouses. But ...

The violin and viola that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played himself are in the United States for the first time ever. The instruments come out of storage only about once a year at the Salzburg Mozarteum ...

Christoph Koncz has used gut-stringed baroque instrument to record Mozart’s violin concertos When he first dared ask the keepers of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s violin if he might be allowed to try it ...

How do you transport the priceless violin that Mozart used to compose his many masterpieces? Pop it in your hand luggage, apparently! We’re told that music philanthropist Marife Hernandez hosted a ...

Jordan Hall was packed on Monday night for the first mainstage concert of the Boston Early Music Festival, an evening of Mozart’s chamber music. The performers were all accomplished period instrument ...

A rare violin believed to have belonged to Mozart during his Vienna years has been presented in Türkiye for the first time.

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 James Ehnes, Violin Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Mozart Anniversary Orchestra Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 James Ehnes, Violin Mozart ...

A private benefactor has gifted a violin played by Mozart when he was in Vienna to the Salzburg Mozart Foundation. Created in 1764, the violin is thought to have been made by Venetian luthier Pietro ...

What’s the difference between a viola and a trampoline? You take your shoes off to jump on a trampoline. Those damn viola jokes! Though usually good-natured and funny, they nonetheless belittle a ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 Bruno Weil, Conductor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Lena Neudauer, Violin German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern Concerto for Violin ...