A previously unknown piece of music likely composed by a teenage Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was recently uncovered at a library in Germany. The piece, which dates to the mid- to late-1760s, consists of ...

A reboot of Peter Shaffer’s play hopes to repeat the 1984 film’s magic and lure a fresh audience to classical music ...

What’s so great about Mozart? Well, just about everything. A former child prodigy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was staggeringly prolific, penning at least 626 published works over his eventful ...

For decades, headlines have claimed that Mozart’s music has all kinds of amazing effects on people’s behaviour and performance. But once you look closer at the different studies behind those headlines ...

Music, particularly Mozart's compositions, can evoke deep emotions and enhance cognitive functions. The 'Mozart Effect' is a concept suggesting that listening to Mozart's music may temporarily enhance ...

Remembered as a child prodigy, how did Mozart craft the masterpieces that would remain well known over two hundred years after his death? Research from the Music Department has unearthed a new side to ...

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 ...

Most musicians think of “Don Giovanni” as one of the masterpieces of classical music. The first scene of the opera sets the tone for the whole piece. Is it a comic opera, or is it a tragedy? From the ...

Author Mario Livio has studied the relationship between art and mathematics. He tells Michele Norris most of us are attracted to symmetry spiced by some elements of surprise... and that combo is the ...

Last autumn English Critic W. J. Turner published a biography* of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (TIME, Sept. 6). To make his portrait of 18th-Century Composer Mozart accurate, Critic Turner pondered anew ...