Mozart Archive

Mozart’s Serenade in B-flat Major, better known by its subtitle Gran Partita, offers a glorious explosion of Classical-era Harmoniemusik for small wind ensembles, which buoyed up many 18th-century garden get-togethers and outdoor parties. Austrian nobles …

The Mozart Trio KV 498 was first performed shortly after its completion by Franziska von Jacquin, Anton Stadler, and Mozart himself at one of the Wednesday soirees at the Jacquin home described by Caroline Pichler. …

The year 1784 was an amazing one for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as far as the composition of keyboard concertos is concerned. In a notebook that he began keeping that year and would maintain for the …

Mozart wrote this concerto shortly before his death, in 1791, for the clarinetist Anton Stadler, the Austrian clarinet and basset horn player. The concerto was given its premiere by Stadler in Prague on October 16, …

Mozart composed the violin concerto #3 at age 19, and it has three movements, with a brief pause between each. Each movement is a different tempo and is meant to show off the virtuosity and …