Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A previously unknown piece of music likely composed by a teenage Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was recently uncovered at a library in ...

For decades, headlines have claimed that Mozart’s music has all kinds of amazing effects on people’s behaviour and performance. But once you look closer at the different studies behind those headlines ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was more than just a child prodigy and pop star of his time. This year's Mozartfest delves deep into his soul. Mozart's "Magic Flute" is one of the most famous and reverred ...

Did Salieri really hate Mozart?

Most extraordinary of all musical geniuses was Austria’s Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Starting his career as a four-fold infant prodigy (harpsichordist, violinist, organist, composer), he wrote, during ...

Mozart's feats of imagination fuse the structures of instrumental music with the brilliantly timed character comedy of the drama Glyndebourne's current production of the opera, directed by Michael ...

Mozart's response to the idea of making church music was a little like the average child's reaction to being told to eat his spinach. And much fuss has been made over just how much Mozart hated having ...

A new clinical research study entitled ‘The Rhyme and Rhythm of Music in Epilepsy’ has found that listening to Mozart daily could reduce the number of seizures a person with epilepsy experiences.

Most musicians think of “Don Giovanni” as one of the masterpieces of classical music. The first scene of the opera sets the tone for the whole piece. Is it a comic opera, or is it a tragedy? From the ...

Most prodigious of all musical prodigies was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Heifetz Hofmann and Yehudi Menuhin showed a early genius for playing music that others had written but Mozart at four was ...

How closely does ‘Amadeus’ follow history?

Remembered as a child prodigy, how did Mozart craft the masterpieces that would remain well known over two hundred years after his death? Research from the Music Department has unearthed a new side to ...