Mozart had many admirers and would no doubt have countless followers on Instagram today. But did he have real friends? Or did ...

On June 1, 1785, on the momentous occasion when young ... staged, and conducted by Mozart. But in certain other respects it must have been far from superb, and from the composer’s point of ...

Mozart Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 was written in 1785, one of his busiest years. It was so busy, he didn't even have time to finish writing out his own part before the first performance. So he ...

Mozart married Constanze Weber in 1782 ... Piano Concerto No. 21 in C (K. 467, 1785), Serenade No. 13 in G for Strings ("Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525, 1787), Symphony No. 40 in G Minor (K.

“Masonic Funeral Music” was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1785. Mozart was a member of the Freemasons. Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, known as H+H, was founded not too long afterwar ...

But, historians have deduced that Sieber turned Mozart down, since Ataria announced the publication of all six quartets in September 1785, after compensating Mozart 100 ducats (about $30,000).

Mozart’s triumphs often have that kind of doubleness, as when, at the peak of his success, he invited his father to visit. In February 1785, Leopold, vastly skeptical about his son’s prospects ...

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 ...