Copy of a portrait of Mozart from 1777 by Padre Martini of Bologna. The summer of 1791 saw Mozart hard at work on not one, but two operas. The Magic Flute was mostly complete by July when it was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 25—In 1791, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna. He was just weeks shy of his 36th birthday. The famed composer never ...

Most performances of Mozart’s Requiem are exactly what Headlam described: an act of imagination. They include portions of the work completed not by Mozart, who died before finishing it, but rather by ...

Mozart's Requiem is a choral masterpiece whose genesis is shrouded in mystery – one that makes the piece all the more fascinating and emotionally stirring. Mozart was not in the best state of mind ...

The College of Music at the University of Colorado Boulder is preparing to cap off a banner year with a performance of one of music’s monumental masterworks. On Tuesday, May 2, the CU Symphony ...

Vermont Symphony Orchestra The Vermont Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Music Director Andrew Crust, will perform Mozart’s Requiem, K. 626; the world premiere of Nico Muhly’s piano concerto ...

Today's Beautiful Music is a live concert performance of the uplifting REQUIEM IN D MINOR by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He began composing it in late 1791, but he died in December 1791 before completing ...

The 1984 Academy Award-winning film “Amadeus,” while an arresting story, was fabricated. And the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs has the proof. In the movie, adapted by Peter Shaffer from his 1979 ...

Luther College’s music department presents the biennial spring oratorio concert, featuring Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s monumental masterpiece, Requiem in D minor, KV 626, at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April ...

Mozart’s Requiem Mass stands out in the repertoire, and not only because it was penned – at least in part – by the “supreme genius of music,” in the apt words of scholar Nicolas Slonimsky. Swathed in ...