When you’re young, you want the hits. Those songs that enliven you, connect you to pop culture and showcase some of the major players on the music scene who are shaping the future. But after you ...
A movie review by Shirley Politzer Why would child prodigy siblings, who were performers and composers, spend years of their childhood studying music and touring through Europe together, but only one ...
This installation repeated Mozart's k608 thousands of times, leading some contemporaries to compare it to the ‘music of the spheres’, in terms of both its sublimity and its endless repetition. To be ...
A Leipzig Municipal Libraries worker holds the lost Mozart manuscript. Photo: Sebastian Willnow/picture alliance / Getty Images A hitherto-unknown piece of music by the Austrian composer Wolfgang ...
Mozart, he says, brings a unique blend of ingenuity, directness, humanity and spirit. “It is very touching and cultivated music, but under the youth and freshness of the surface there is a lot ...