In a pile of anonymous manuscripts in Paris, a curator nearing retirement found something scholars spend lifetimes hoping to ...

While working as a tutor in 1778, the composer created seven short pieces for flute and harp with his student's help. This ...

The forgotten notebook, discovered earlier this year in France's national library, contained music Mozart wrote while teaching a teenage student in Paris in 1778 ...

One day 52 years ago, George Cleve, the San Jose Symphony’s conductor, was kicking back for a few beers with some of the ...

Hot news in the world of 18th century classical chamber music today, as French news agency Agence France-Presse reports that a new single has just dropped from the Vienna wunderkind himself, Wolfgang ...

He had started playing the piano around the age of three, watching his older sister’s piano lessons, and was taught by his father in both composition and academic subjects. After spending his early ...

In his lifetime, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed upwards of 600 works—symphonies, operas, sonatas, and concertos—that have fixed him in the pantheon of Western Classical music. His known oeuvre, ...

For decades, headlines have claimed that Mozart’s music has all kinds of amazing effects on people’s behaviour and performance. But once you look closer at the different studies behind those headlines ...

A previously unknown piece of music likely composed by a teenage Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was recently uncovered at a library in Germany. The piece, which dates to the mid- to late-1760s, consists of ...

A Darwin academic says he has found evidence that suggests one of the greatest composers of all time claimed credit for some of his older sister's work. Former CDU Professor Martin Jarvis has spent ...

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 ...

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 ...