he wrote the Mass as a deeply personal gesture of thanks for Constanze’s recovery from a serious illness. Mozart also claimed ...

Mozart can be a “love or hate” composer for many concertgoers, yet if you think of Wolfgang Amadeus as the fun-loving guy who wrote “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik,” the deep, introspective “C Minor Mass” is ...

His widow, Constanze, perhaps worried that the commission ... wrote to the music publisher that he felt unworthy of recreating Mozart’s talent. Others have taken on the task in the centuries ...

“Recently unemployed and without the management of his father, Amadeus finds an unlikely ally in a young singer who will become his wife, the fiery Constanze Weber Mozart. Her connections help ...

The meaning of Magic Flute, and how it is a love letter from Mozart to his wife Constanze.

Mozart composed his first opera, Apollo et Hyacinthus when he was only 11. A year later the Emperor Joseph II commissioned him to write La finta semplice. In August 1782 he married Constanze Weber.

But Leopold intervened, and their romance fizzled out. In 1782, a 26-year-old Mozart eventually married Constanze Weber. That’s right, he married Aloysia’s sister! 8. The Magic Flute had a ...

His widow, Constanze, perhaps worried that the commission ... wrote to the music publisher that he felt unworthy of recreating Mozart's talent. Others have taken on the task in the centuries ...