Mozart Archive

Mozart composed the String Duo K. 423 during a visit to Salzburg from July to October 1783. According to historical notes, they were written to do his friend Michael Haydn a personal favor. Haydn had …

Mozart’s Piano concerto #19 is a gem of a concerto that was completed on December 11, 1784. It is the last of six piano concertos which Mozart produced that year. He played it, along with …

Soprano Christiane Karg was born in Feuchtwangen, Bavaria. She studied singing at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Heiner Hopfner and Wolfgang Holzmair, where she was awarded the Lilli Lehmann Medal. She also studied at the Music …

This serenade by Mozart is in five movements, all of which begin and end in e-flat. It begins with a rather impulsive allegro that regularly shifts moods and character and is anchored by the e-flat …

Mozart, who had been profoundly moved by Haydn’s String Quartets op. 33, composed the six quartets of which this is one, between 1782 and 1785 and he dedicated them to his friend Joseph Haydn with the words: …