Violinist Mark Steinberg and pianist Jonathan Biss will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday at Union College’s Memorial Chapel in a ...

How do you transport the priceless violin that Mozart used to compose his many masterpieces? Pop it in your hand luggage, apparently! We’re told that music philanthropist Marife Hernandez hosted a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jordan Hall was packed on Monday night for the first mainstage concert of the Boston Early Music Festival, an evening of Mozart’s chamber music. The performers were all accomplished period instrument ...

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 ...

Superb artistry shines through this excellent new release. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 5 May 2014. Born in 1981 to a German father and Japanese mother, the violinist Arabella Steinbacher has had ...

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 ...

It is hard for Mozart’s violin concertos to win attention for themselves, living as they do in the gigantic shadow cast by Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Mozart’s own sublime Sinfonia Concertante for ...

How this young violinist has become one of her nation’s favourite classical virtuoso At just three years of age, Yoeun had already become a social media star after her mother started uploading her ...