Documentary filmmaker Phil Grabsky was watching Simon Rattle conducting Mozart’s Idomeneo at Glyndebourne in 2003 when he had his epiphany. It struck him that, nearly 250 years after Mozart’s birth, ...

Genius for Hire, produced by Section 52 Films (Dickens: Phantoms and Fictions, David Harewood: Dickens in Italy) for Sky Arts ...

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 ...

Russian poet Aleksander Pushkin and playwright Peter Shaffer, as well as the hit movie “Amadeus,” have perpetuated well into the 20th century the myth of Antonio Salieri’s vindictive murder plot ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Channel 4 documentary will suggest that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music was influenced by Tourette's syndrome, a complex disorder that can leave sufferers with a twitch and a tendency to swear ...

Visuals have played a large part in Ryan Leslie‘s career. Early on, the singer-songwriter and producer gained notoriety on YouTube. Today, he implores a much more grandiose approach with his Black ...