For example, the Italian word 'cembalo' is a shortened form of 'clavicembalo' which means 'harpsichord'; but when Mozart writes 'cembalo' in a concerto score ... of Mozart's music is the clarity ...

Listen to the best of Mozart on Apple Music and Spotify ... new collaborator Lorenzo Da Ponte produced from the composer a score that matches the swiftly changing moods of this busy, intricate ...

For many of us who play music by canonical composers like Mozart, the notated score is sacred. Our job as performers, we ...

Johannes Chrystostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (1756–1791) was arguably the most gifted musician in the history of classical music. His inspiration is often described as 'divine', but he worked ...

We now know that Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto was written for a basset clarinet in A (whose notes sound a minor third lower than written). The score of his concerto wasn’t published until 1803 ...

Mozart and Chopin wrote their music hundreds of years ago. In recent months, their music was still being discovered in archives, and we can now hear what it sounds like.

During his lifetime, Mozart composed over 600 pieces of music. After his death, a catalogue of his musical scores was compiled and kept at Leipzig's municipal libraries in Germany. Researchers ...