Mozart wrote five violin concertos, all but one of them in the same year—1775, when he was nineteen. The Concerto No. 1 was written two years before, possibly. Musicologists are unsure. Are they great ...

The violin and viola that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played himself are in the United States for the first time ever. The instruments come out of storage only about once a year at the Salzburg Mozarteum ...

Mozart never made it to America: getting seasick crossing the English Channel put an end to any of his seafaring fantasies. But America was frequently on Mozart's mind. In fact, his closest ...

Playing Mozart's music on Mozart's own violin is like reaching through 250 years of history to commune with the legendary composer, says Christoph Koncz. Koncz, the principal second violinist of the ...

What’s the difference between a viola and a trampoline? You take your shoes off to jump on a trampoline. Those damn viola jokes! Though usually good-natured and funny, they nonetheless belittle a ...

Oh, not much to see here, just the violin that Mozart composed countless works of genius with... This is the holy grail of violins Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart liked to have a good number of instruments ...

A private benefactor has gifted a violin played by Mozart when he was in Vienna to the Salzburg Mozart Foundation. Created in 1764, the violin is thought to have been made by Venetian luthier Pietro ...

Singaporean violinist Cathy Chen Xi, 11, has clinched first prize in her age category at the prestigious Hengqin International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians. The Tao Nan School pupil topped ...