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In the fall of 1782 the recently married Mozart was struggling to make a living in Vienna as a freelance musician and composer. But as a letter to the…

In December 1781 Mozart wrote to his father from Vienna that he planned to marry Constanze Weber. Mozart knew that his father was opposed to his marrying…

You’re attending a concert,the orchestra is in place, except for one empty chair. Then you hear footsteps, out strides a lone violinist who bows, turns…

The previous "Mozart Minute" compared Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Mozart and Salieri with the much later stage play and film Amadeus. In the 1890s, Rimsky's…

Wolfgang and Nannerl Mozart's father, Leopold Mozart, was himself a professional musician, and famously promoted his children's prodigious musical gifts.…

Wolfgang Mozart and his father, Leopold, were frequently - and now famously - at odds. Masterminding his prodigy childrens' concert tours of Europe was…

As reported recently in NPR's Deceptive Cadence, an 11 year old violinist named Dylan Hamme got to meet and play a duet with his music idol, Joshua Bell,…

Well Strung is the name of a string quartet made up of four buff guys whose look leans more to Olympic gymnasts than to practise room geeks.  They are…

On the next Fretworks, we're seeing in the beginning of autumn with Astor Piazzolla's Otono Porteno, (Fall in Buenos Aires) from the Four Seasons of…

The next Classical Showcase on Friday evening at 7 pm features a concert from Carnegie Hall in New York with the world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic…