"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Music for Solo Keyboard." Trevor Stephenson, Fortepiano

"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Music for Solo Keyboard." Trevor Stephenson, Fortepiano

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: the death of a genius.

The early and unexpected death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Salzburg, 1756 - Vienna, 1791) was a mystery from the very first day and the subject of wildest speculations and adventurous assertions. Over the last 100 years, medical science has investigated the physical sufferings and the mysterious death of Mozart with increasing intensity. The aim of this article was to recreate Mozart's pathogra...

1 The chamber music with keyboard in Mozart biography

The most perfunctory survey of the biographical literature devoted to Mozart – from the late eighteenth century to the present day – reveals an avid curiosity into the composer’s life history, perhaps a compulsive tendency to situate and contextualise his music. Although Mozart’s music might be clearly intelligible without knowledge of either his life or his eighteenth-century environment – twi...

1 of 7 " Amadeus " and Mozart : Setting the Record Straight

"For the respect his works have commanded of musicians, and the popularity they have enjoyed among wider audiences, he is probably the most admired composer in the history of Western music." With this appraisal the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, published in 1980, begins its magisterial article on Beethoven. More than a decade later one might not apply this statement to the Teuton...

Mozart, Music and Medicine

According to the first publication in 1993 by Rauscher et al. [Nature 1993;365:611], the Mozart effect implies the enhancement of reasoning skills solving spatial problems in normal subjects after listening to Mozart's piano sonata K 448. A further evaluation of this effect has raised the question whether there is a link between music-generated emotions and a higher level of cognitive abilities...