With Mozart, what was intriguing was at five years old, we were supposed to believe -- or four or five years old -- that he was capable of composing ... of course misses his mother and sister.

By the time he was 4 years old, Mozart could learn a song ... his mother. Instead, he got his friend, Abbé Bullinger, to tell him the news. Leopold Mozart ended up blaming his son for Anna’s ...

Isaacson did not connect with the 18th-century view of death or the Roman Catholic origins of the piece. Yet she was asking the same questions that Mozart and then his student might have ...