It’s one of Mozart’s famous melodies that inspired Helene Liebmann in her cello sonata from 1806. She was a German pianist and composer who didn’t publish much, but we’ll get to hear her music this ...
Fans of the movie "The Sound of Music" know the gardens of Salzburg's Schloss Mirabell (Mirabell Palace) well. Julie Andrews and the Von Trapp children sing and dance their way around a fountain and a ...
Mozart and his family did a lot of traveling from city to city, so he was well-acquainted with the sound of the posthorn from their carriage. That sound is essential to his Posthorn Serenade, which we ...
Mozart and the Church. It's a little like saying, "kids, eat your spinach." Much fuss has been made over how much Mozart hated Salzburg and having to write mostly church music. Much of his church ...
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 ...
This weekend at the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra is presenting "A Classical Christmas." And on the program are two excerpts from Mozart's Vespers, K. 339. This is incredible music and you almost ...
JoAnn Falletta, as the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s Music Director, with her committee, picks the music for the year ahead and, for the annual Mozart Birthday concerts, this year has cleverly ...
Although Mozart has no living descendants, his music still has countless inheritors. The latest in the lineage — born just this summer — is a digital twin. German tech giant Siemens conceived the ...
Mozart had a number of pets over the course of his short life, but one stands out above all the others: his pet starling. The bird first attracted Mozart's attention in May of 1784 when he heard it ...
Over the past fifty years, there have been remarkable claims about the effects of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music. Reports about alleged symptom-alleviating effects of listening to Mozart's Sonata ...