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For paparazzos, making a quick buck is as simple as lurking around a celebrity's home (if they can find it). Why, might you ask? That would be because our culture is obsessed with the extravagant pads of Hollywood's elite.The gargantuan homes of today's stars are plastered across the Internet and on tabloids. This prompted the Movoto Real Estate bloggers to put our own spin on covering these posh properties.We wondered how the often grossly oversized and overpriced abodes might compare to celebrities of times past. Musicians, in particular. By this we mean any popular musical individual -- whether composer, singer, or band mate -- from about the 18th century onward whose work remains popular.Pimped-Out Pads for the WinWhile researching the abodes of 10 musicians, we came across some surprising discoveries about the size of their homes.Here are the highlights of what we found:At 10,763 square feet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's apartment was so large it could fit three of Louis Armstrong's ...
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Study: Premature babies who listen to Mozart grow faster
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...
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...
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...
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...
German opera company said Friday it would bring back a Mozart opera canceled because of security fears over a scene featuring the severed head of the Prophet Muhamma...
The director of Berlin's Deutsche Oper on Tuesday defended her decision to cancel performances of a Mozart opera over fears of how Muslims may react to one of its sc...
Doctor demonstrates how composer helps him find more polyps
Massachusetts lawyer Kenneth Feinberg has been near the heart of some of the worst catastrophes, dealing with people who've faced profound loss after 9/1l, the BP oi...
The huge musical puzzle that is Mozart is about to be expanded by two potentially important pieces.More than two centuries after his death, two additional works have...
This past weekend the usual pomp and pageantry took place at the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, as Pope Benedict XVI officially elevated six new Cardinals i...
The International Mozarteum Foundation said Thursday it has discovered two more works composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .The previously unknown works are piano pie...
One Salzburg hotel piped Beethoven through its intercom, but it was mostly Mozart in his cobblestoned hometown and cities around the world on Friday, the 250th anniv...
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 ...
In tiny Austria, where souvenir shops do brisk business in T-shirts bearing the crossed-out image of a kangaroo, some hope skydiver Felix Baumgartner's record-breaki...
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...
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...