Christoph Koncz has used gut-stringed baroque instrument to record Mozart’s violin concertos When he first dared ask the keepers of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s violin if he might be allowed to try it ...

“I played as though I were the finest fiddler in Europe,” Mozart once proudly confided to his father, Leopold, describing a concert that took place in fall 1777. Improbably enough, as I type these ...

A private benefactor has gifted a violin played by Mozart when he was in Vienna to the Salzburg Mozart Foundation. Created in 1764, the violin is thought to have been made by Venetian luthier Pietro ...

The violin and viola that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played himself are in the United States for the first time ever. The instruments come out of storage only about once a year at the Salzburg Mozarteum ...

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Matthew Bengtson believes the best way to perform music written by Mozart is on the instrument the classical composer, who lived in the mid-1700s, played. To that end, Bengtson will bring his 1785 ...

Piano Quartet No.1 in G Minor, K.478: 1. Allegro Piano Quartet No.1 in G Minor, K.478: 2. Andante Piano Quartet No.1 in G Minor, K.478: 3. Rondo (Allegro moderato) Piano Quartet No.2 in E Flat Major, ...

The Kamloops Mozart Festival wrapped up this weekend. The festival was not just about the music. It's also an education in music history. Daybreak's Jennifer Chrumka sat down with a couple of ...

The Gran Partita is a supreme instrumental masterpiece and Baldeyrou and his ensemble do it full justice in this first disc of a Mozart series This is the first instalment of clarinettist Nicolas ...