Most extraordinary of all musical geniuses was Austria’s Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Starting his career as a four-fold infant prodigy (harpsichordist, violinist, organist, composer), he wrote, during ...

But the question “Who killed Mozart?” has never been a medical one. As William Stafford argued in The Mozart Myths (1991), ...

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What are you doing for the next 10 days? That's how long it would take, without sleep, to listen to the new Mozart edition. The mammoth set, which some are touting as the biggest box set ever, claims ...

Biography: Mozart was born Jan. 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He died on Dec. 5, 1791 in Vienna. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. Leopold and ...

Mozart's wild ride from child prodigy to accomplished composer was fueled with strong family relationships -- some nurturing and others crippling. Mozart's father hoped that his son's musical talent ...