An archivist named François-Pierre Goy was examining a pile of anonymous manuscripts when a 44-page notebook filled with ...

The young Mozart composed the piece around 1760 and was played for the first time at the Leipzig Opera over the weekend. Reading time 2 minutes A hitherto-unknown piece of music by the Austrian ...

Mozart was a paradox. Our most humane composer wrote both the world’s most elegant music and its most hair-raising. A musical prodigy, he died two months shy of his 36th birthday, short of funds ...

Music has its seasons, and people have their needs. At some point in the autumn of 1979, I became obsessed with a few bars of Mozart. I was thirteen, fundamentally cheerful but convinced I was ...

For generations, music historians worked on the assumption that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's surviving manuscripts had been ...

Love, distrust, and mayhem are in the air for a short time while Minnesota Opera’s ravishing production of Mozart’s comedic piece, Così Fan Tutte, delights audiences. The 260+ year old piece has been ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

THOSE music-lovers who fidget through the overture and cannot wait for the curtain to go up on the “real” performance have cause to rejoice over the coming musical season in Europe. The score or two ...

James Conlon has begun his farewell as music director of L.A. Opera, leading Mozart’s “Magic Flute” in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Barrie Kosky’s silent-film-styled staging turns Mozart’s opera ...