Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Casanova and Giovanni

Kim Witman | Posted 05.16.2012

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Casanova was a friend of Lorenzo da Ponte, the man who wrote the words to Mozart's Don Giovanni. Casanova, Lorenza da Ponte, and Don Giovanni. A frighteningly powerful intersection of virility, machismo and hubris.

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From Page to Stage: Don Giovanni

Kim Witman | Posted 04.17.2012

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  Don Giovanni was a womanizer -- one beside whom Don Draper would pale. But it was not this Don's philandering, but the way in which he held himself above God and all morality that shocked Mozart's audiences most.

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15-Year-Old Mozart's Opera Gets Rare Staging

AP | MIKE SILVERMAN | Posted 04.12.2012

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NEW YORK -- With all the reckless disregard of youth for practicality, the 15-year-old Mozart filled his opera "Il sogno di Scipione" with one impossi...

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Long-Lost Mozart Piece Performed

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 05.23.2012

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VIENNA -- A piano work experts attribute to Mozart as a child prodigy was performed for the first time Friday since it was found last year after appar...

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Subversive Reverence: Timothy Andres Re-Imagines Mozart's "Coronation" Concerto

Daniel J. Kushner | Posted 05.21.2012

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Composer and pianist Timothy Andres's take on the subject of demigods in art is far removed from conventional Romanticism: "We like to imagine that our artists have this kind of divine inspiration. I think if they say they do, they're probably having you on," says Andres.

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Mozart At The Movies

Posted 01.30.2012

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Today marks the would-be 256th birthday of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Throughout his life, Mozart created more than 600 classical pieces. Thoug...

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The Shadow of Your Sib

George Heymont | Posted 01.14.2012

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Much has been written about the care and nurturing of the gifted child. Far less advice is available on the care and nurturing of those children who perpetually stand in the shadow of a gifted child.

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Mozart The Catholic: What Could Have Been

Lorenzo Candelaria | Posted 06.17.2011

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Events were once set in motion that would have changed the history of sacred music forever. But we can only guess what Mozart's popular music for Catholic liturgies would have sounded like.

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New Mozart Pieces Unveiled (VIDEO)

AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN | Posted 05.25.2011

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SALZBURG, Austria (AP) -- Technically demanding and at times furiously paced, two newly identified Mozart works unveiled Sunday are helping scholars c...

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Mozart Works, Previously Unknown, Discovered By Austrian Foundation

AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN | Posted 05.25.2011

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VIENNA — The International Mozarteum Foundation said Thursday it has discovered two more works composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The previou...

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