Mozart Archive

David Oistrakh was a giant among 20th-century musicians, a violinist whose outward calm still showed us his genius as a performer and the circumstances of his life and career as an artist. With the warm, …

Philippe Herreweghe was born in Ghent, Belgium and studied at both the university and music conservatory there, studying piano with Marcel Gazelle. During this period he started conducting and founded the Collegium Vocale Gent in …

Mozart completed his Concerto No. 21 only a month after his previous concerto. He would write four more in the next 21 months. Because Mozart wrote them for his own concert performances in Vienna, he …

Mozart’s D Major quintet seems to create a narrative sequence over its movements. Two beautiful slow sections seem to frame the first movement, and the main body of the movement has a fairly straightforward, expository …

Mozart died in Vienna on December 5, 1791. Yes… of course he was a genius whose creativity impacted people for more than 200 years following his death. I dedicate this music today to the infants, …