In the Mozart Museum in Salzburg, there's a piano by Anton Walter of Vienna. It has two fewer octaves than a modern piano, a device operated by the player's knee to 'dampen' the sound, and a knob ...
Post-marriage, some of Mozart's best started to appear -the Haffner and Linz symphonies and five string quartets, for example. Between 1784 and 1786, he composed nine piano concertos and three of ...
astonishing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. And last night in particular, that sense of Figaro as a tower of magnificent musical matchsticks, from which if one were removed the whole thing would collapse ...