Mozart Archive

The Sinfonia Concertante by Mozart is a hybrid concerto-symphony, a concerto format in which solo instruments tend to blend into an orchestral fabric. In this case, it is believed that Mozart chose it as a …

Lucia Popp made her stage debut as a singer at age 23 at the Bratislava Opera singing the role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. In 1963 Herbert von Karajan heard …

Mozart composed the concerto #15 for performance at a series of concerts at the Vienna in the first quarter of 1784, where he was himself the soloist in March 1784. In a letter to his …

Mozart composed his Piano Concerto No. 20 in 1785 at the height of his popularity in Vienna. The piece was an immediate success at its February 11 premiere. Following his usual practice, Mozart performed the …

The Mozart Piano Concerto No. 16 in D major, K. 451 testifies to the frantic pace of Mozart’s activity during his Viennese time. The D-major concerto is the heroic Mozart at his best. The exuberant …