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

Once upon a time biographies appeared without source notes. Biographers might very well allude to where they obtained their information, but no particular effort was made to anchor facts and sentences ...

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 ...

MOZART: A Life. By Paul Johnson. Viking. 176 pages. $25.95. British historian and biographer Paul Johnson, the prolific author of more than 40 books, has written a concise introduction to the life and ...

The doctor did not care to leave the opera that night in early December 1791, when he received word that an ailing patient of his had taken a turn for the worse. He told the messenger that he would ...

The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart begins with the “miracle of January 24, 1761.” This is Jan Swafford’s apt phrase, found in his new biography, Mozart: The Reign of Love, for what happened one ...

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 ...

The November 2014 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” features important works created by the man Martin Bookspan called “one of the principal ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Catch The Mozart Minute every Friday at noon during the Amadeus Deli, and listen to The Mozart Minute podcast at wosu.org/podcasts. Picture it: Mozart at a masquerade ...