Mozart grew up in Salzburg, but over a third of his adolescence was spent traveling Europe showing off his extraordinary keyboard skills and learning from other composers and musicians. We know a lot ...

Most extraordinary of all musical geniuses was Austria’s Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Starting his career as a four-fold infant prodigy (harpsichordist, violinist, organist, composer), he wrote, during ...

Once upon a time biographies appeared without source notes. Biographers might very well allude to where they obtained their information, but no particular effort was made to anchor facts and sentences ...

Pianist Jeremy Denk has finally had the space and time to finish his forthcoming memoir Every Good Boy Does Fine, which will resonate with you if you took piano lessons as a kid. It releases this ...

Mozart's wild ride from child prodigy to accomplished composer was fueled with strong family relationships -- some nurturing and others crippling. Mozart's father hoped that his son's musical talent ...

Our music today includes Mozart’s variations on a nursery song that he knew as “Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman. We know it be a few other titles as you’ll discover during our music today beginning at 9am on ...

The life of Mozart has been subject to many myths. He wrote too many notes. He died in poverty. He was killed by Salieri. Mozart was unappreciated in Vienna, his adopted hometown. He was buried in a ...