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“Virtuosic.” “A prodigy.” “Genius.” These words were written in the 1760s about Mozart—Maria Anna Mozart. When she toured Europe as a pianist, young Maria Anna wowed audiences in ...
Alma Deutscher: The prodigy whose "first language" is Mozart 13:16. We cannot explain what you're about to hear. Science just doesn't know enough about the brain to make sense of Alma.
Maria Anna Mozart was a musical prodigy just like her younger brother Wolfgang. Although the children toured Europe together, once Maria Anna came of age, she was left behind while her brother ...
Mozart: Rise of a Genius (BBC Two) is his latest undertaking. Fry is the author of a book about classical music, and is clearly au fait with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s life story.
A young composer named Jay Greenberg, busy producing symphonies at Juilliard, was recently heralded with the headline “Prodigy, 12, Compared to Mozart.” As we near the 250 th anniversary of ...
Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, a lush dialogue expressing the pleasures of likeness and difference, doesn't get performed nearly enough. Now's the time to hear it.
Mozart was just 12 years old when he was commissioned to write an opera. Overnight, he went from a child prodigy to a major threat. Composers in Vienna, angry that they were skipped over for the ...
It’s hard to be anything but enamored with 18-year-old violin prodigy Caroline Goulding, who will perform with the National Symphony Orchestra for the first time in “Tcheers for Tchaikovsky ...
NORWALK -- Performed by youngsters and adults for youngsters and adults, the upcoming Norwalk Symphony Orchestra/Norwalk Youth Symphony annual Side by Side concert is a perfect introductory ...
On Jan. 27, 1756, classical music’s greatest prodigy was born. A star performer and a composer from age 5, with more than 620 works catalogued before his untimely death at age 35, Wolfgang Amade ...
Mozart's relationship with his father was one of love and mutual respect, but not subservience. Scholars Neal Zaslaw and Jane Glover explore the relationship. Music includes a sonata for piano and ...
The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra (ASO), Philip Mann, Music Director and Conductor, presents the fourth concert in the 2014-2015 Stella Boyle Smith Masterworks Series: Tchaikovsky and Mozart Festival.