MOZART: A Life. By Paul Johnson. Viking. 176 pages. $25.95. British historian and biographer Paul Johnson, the prolific author of more than 40 books, has written a concise introduction to the life and ...

Few composers loom larger in the popular imagination than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Certainly Beethoven's music is more familiar, but even those who don't know their Figaro from their Fidelio have some ...

Johannes Chrystostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (1756–1791) was arguably the most gifted musician in the history of classical music. His inspiration is often described as 'divine', but he worked ...

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 ...

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Granta Books has snapped up rights to biography Mozart in Motion by poet Patrick Mackie. Publishing director Bella Lacey signed world rights from the author. The biography is scheduled for publication ...

The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart begins with the “miracle of January 24, 1761.” This is Jan Swafford’s apt phrase, found in his new biography, Mozart: The Reign of Love, for what happened one ...

Did Mozart meet Beethoven? What was the deal with the freemasons? And would The Marriage of Figaro solve Mozart's financial problems? Mozart and Constanze, childless again, moved from their flat in ...