Few composers loom larger in the popular imagination than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Certainly Beethoven's music is more familiar, but even those who don't know their Figaro from their Fidelio have some ...

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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 ...

Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music by Jane Glover 356pp, Macmillan, £20 Mozart's Women opens with three widows - Mozart's wife Constanze, his sister-in-law Sophie (in whose arms he ...

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Granta Books has snapped up rights to biography Mozart in Motion by poet Patrick Mackie. Publishing director Bella Lacey signed world rights from the author. The biography is scheduled for publication ...

Mozart: The Early Years by Stanley Sadie (Oxford University Press £25, pp672) Mozart and his Operas by David Cairns (Allen Lane £22, pp304) Anniversaries generate their own momentum. The 250th ...

Did Mozart meet Beethoven? What was the deal with the freemasons? And would The Marriage of Figaro solve Mozart's financial problems? Mozart and Constanze, childless again, moved from their flat in ...