Mozart was also friends with Anton Stadler, one of the best clarinetists of his time. He composed a clarinet quintet and a ...

The Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University has awarded Leif Ove Andsnes the $75,000 Jean Gimbel ...

Mozart (1756-1791) completed his Piano Concerto No. 21 in 1785, four weeks after finishing his previous concerto. The second movement features a melody that was used in the 1967 Swedish film ...

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 ...

He met Mozart and Voltaire ... lonely and bitter when he took a job as librarian for Count Waldstein in Bohemia in 1785. Five years later, he began writing his memoirs. He brooded over the ...

They include musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1756; writer Lewis Carroll ... They were executed four days later. In 1785, the first public university in the United States was founded as the ...

Vienna, 1785. Johann Friedrich Schink is blown away by a new work featuring the new-fangled clarinet and basset horn. ‘Oh, what a glorious effect it made – glorious and great, excellent and sublime!’ ...

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).

The night’s account of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 was similarly turbulent. This 1785 score’s storminess held no terrors for Jan Lisiecki, who was making his first appearance with the BSO since ...

He brought a lyrical sweetness to the second movement “Romanze,” its charming back-and-forth with the woodwinds a reminder that 1785 was a particular sweet spot for Mozart’s operatic writing.

(Who was the Mozart outside the jungle, for those of you keeping track at home.) Unearthed from a library in Leipzig, Germany, the 260-year-old string trio composition got its first public ...