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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (, English see fn.), baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era.
Read More at Wikipedia ›A Polish opera house has performed Mozart's Requiem — a funeral piece — in front of the Culture Ministry in Warsaw to protest cuts to its budget.
The Chamber Opera's orchestra, choir and soloists performed Tuesday to the hearty applause of hundreds of people. A large banner saying, "Minister, Only You Can Save the Chamber Opera," hung above the artists.They handed a ministry official a letter signed by some 20,000 people asking Culture Minister Bogdan Zdrojewski to secure funds for the opera. Otherwise, they say, it will have to close in the summer.There was no immediate reply from the ministry, which is instituting cuts as a broader government cost-reduction effort.The 50-year-old Warsaw-based opera is known for its annual festivals of all of Mozart's opera compositions....BALTIMORE -- The very travels that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and shaped modern biology may have led to one of the illnesses that plagued the Brit...
The Vienna State Opera's new production of "The Marriage of Figaro" is a treat for those who insist Mozart is all about the music. Not so for audience members lookin...
Technically demanding and at times furiously paced, two newly identified Mozart works unveiled Sunday are helping scholars complete their assessment of the maestro's...
Study: Premature babies who listen to Mozart grow faster
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With barefoot running all the rage, the unshod workout is gaining ground across the exercise spectrum.Fitness experts from aerobics instructors to modern dancers are...
With barefoot running all the rage, the unshod workout is gaining ground across the exercise spectrum.Fitness experts from aerobics instructors to modern dancers are...
The Supreme Court upheld a law Wednesday giving U.S. copyright protection to paintings by Pablo Picasso, films of Alfred Hitchcock, music from Igor Stravinsky and mi...
Where's the music? We succumbed to the sales pitch for the "romantic," albeit pricey gondola ride early one evening on Venice's famed canals, but our gondolier, deck...
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the renowned German baritone who performed for more than five decades on stages in Berlin, Vienna, London and New York, died Friday. He was...
The International Mozarteum Foundation said Thursday it has discovered two more works composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .The previously unknown works are piano pie...
Maestro Riccardo Muti conducted a concert of selections of sacred music by Vivaldi and Verdi at the Vatican for an appreciative Pope Benedict XVI Friday in a celebra...
The owners of a German sewage treatment plant called on scientists to investigate Wednesday after they claimed playing Mozart motivates the plant's microbes and make...
BERLIN -- Germany's transport minister is sharing one of his own stress-reducers — the slow movements of Mozart's piano concertos — with drivers in hopes the soothin...
The very travels that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and shaped modern biology may have led to one of the illnesses that plagued the British naturalis...
Frederic Chopin's habit of drifting off and hallucinating at the piano may have been caused by epilepsy, according to a new study of the 19th-century romantic compos...